Interview with Aḥmad Muṣṭafà Shabāyṭah مقابلة مع أحمد مصطفى شبايطة

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:24 - Childhood difficulties and education

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Arrest; British colonialism; Brutal treatment; Children's games; Education; Family structure; Farmers; Fathers; House raid; Schools; Scout; Shaykhs; Taxes; Teachers; Village siege; Writing materials and instruments; Ḥiṭṭīn (Palestine)

00:08:52 - Socio-economic conditions and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Azzām, Mufaḍḍī (Trader); Azzām, Azzām (Trader); Shaʻbān, Muḥammad (Trader); al-Būlīṣ, Khalīl (Doctor).

Families: Shabāyṭah; Azzām; al-Imām; Rabāḥ; Qīyyam.

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Akka (Palestine); Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British policy; Buḥayrat Ṭabarayā (Palestine); Dowry; Farmers; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Herbal remedies; Income; Land ownership; Marriage proposals; Means of transportation; Medical aid; Socio-economic conditions; Tiberias (Palestine); Trade; Traditional medical procedures; Wedding preparations; Wedding traditions; Work; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī; ʻĪd celebrations

00:27:23 - Political turmoil and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Saʻīd, Diyāb (Poet); al-Badawī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); Shabāyṭah, Mūsá (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd al-ʻAbd (Mayor); Azzām, Abū Rāmī,(Mayor).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Antiquities; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbitration; British colonialism; Emotions; Entertainment; Family relations; Jewish settlements; Khirbat Wādī al-Ḥamām (Palestine); Mayors; Olive trees; Poetry; Population; Return; Rocks; Spring; Water resources

00:38:21 - Political conditions and Palestinian resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Resisatnce leader); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd ʻAbd al-Qādir (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Resistance fighter); al-Imām, Ḥāmid (Martyr).

Families: Sursuq; Ramaḍān; Twaynī; al-Lawābinah.

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; Antiquities; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Arrest; Battles; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Collaborationists; Crimes against humanity; Deception; Executions; Expulsion from Palestine; Farming practices; Governors; Guards; Jewish immigrants; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Massacres; Military superiority; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Radio stations; Revolutionaries; Rifles; Traders; Village occupation; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977

01:03:03 - Expulsion and hardships of exile

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Attempt at return; Collaborationists; Dietary practices; Diseases; Druzes; Family structure; Leaving; Lebanon; Means of transportation; Military superiority; Military withdrawal; Muḥammad, Prophet, 571-633; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Prophets; Psychological warfare; Religious belief; Routes; Smuggling; Suffering; Terrorism; Village occupation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Ḥiṭṭīn (Palestine); Ḥurfaysh (Palestine)