Interview with Muḥammad Khalīl ʻAbd al-Ghanī مقابلة مع محمد خليل عبدالغني

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Socio-economic conditions and community life

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Dusūqī, Yūsuf (School principal); Naʻnāʻah, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl (Teacher); al-ʻAllūsh, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); ʻUrābī, Rajah (Teacher); Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); Salīm, Ṣālih (Mayor); al-Saʻdī, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Sulaymān,‘Abd al-Majīd Muḥammad (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet).

Families: Najim; Mawʻid; al-Saʻdīyah; ʻAql; ʻUrābī.

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Arbitration; Assassination; British colonialism; British officers; British police forces; British-Jewish relations; Charity; Childhood dreams; Children's games; Convents; Dwellings; Dīwān; Education; Employment; Entertainment; Farmers; Farming practices; Income; Interreligious relations; Land ownership; Land partition; Maqām; Markets; Mass murder; Mayors; Military training; Mosques; Municipalities; Nuns; Poetry; Public schools; Revolutionaries; Social norms; Sports; Trade; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; ʻAtābā; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

00:29:45 - Community life and the British colonialist policies towrds the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-Ghanī, Muḥammad al-Sulaymān (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Sulaymān Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Naṣr, Ṣālih Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá al-ʻAlī (Revolutionary leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Faḥḥūm, Rāfiʻ (Revolutionary).

Families: al-Faḥḥūm.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Marj Ibn ‘Āmir (Plain).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab Revolt,1936-1939; British colonialism; Brutal treatment; Collaborationists; Dīwān; Entertainment; Executions; Farmers; Martyrs; Nazareth (Palestine); Palestinian resistance; Political parties; Tanks; Torture; Village siege; Weapons; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

00:39:54 - Treason and expulsion from Ṣaffurīyah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Bisnah, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); ʻAbd al-Ghanī, Muḥammad al-Sulaymān (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Sulaymān Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū al-N‘āj, Nimir (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Armed forces; Armed resistance; Damaged weapons; Deception; Defense; Expulsion; Germans; Guards; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Injuries; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Jaysh Shakīb Wahhāb; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlements; Leaving; Martyrs; Military superiority; Mines; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Protection; Rifles; Tanks; Treason; Village occupation; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Shajarah Battle, 1948; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:59:33 - Zionist invasion of Ṣaffurīyah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-Hādī, Amīnah (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Hādī, Aḥmad (Martyr)

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Chaos; Child killings; Childbirth; Deception; Expulsion from Palestine; Hiding; Injuries; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Jaysh Abū Maḥmūd; Military training; Official documents; Personal belongings; Qaṭannah (Palestine); Routes; Seeking shelter; Tanks; Terrorism; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation

01:07:00 - Resistance and expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Bombardment; Elderly people; Internal migration; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Land ownership; Leaving; Mayors; Nazareth (Palestine); Passing on memories; Return request; Tanks; Treason; Village occupation; Village siege; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; ʻArrābah (Palestine); Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)