Interview with Muḥammad ʻAbd al- Ḥāmid Fāris مقابلة مع محمد عبد الحامد فارس

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:30 - Childhood and education

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Saʻdī, Fatḥ Allāh (Shaykh).

Families: Sirḥān.

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Agriculture; Akka (Palestine); Arbitration; Childhood dreams; Children's games; Dīwān; Education; Family structure; Farming practices; Irrigation; Land ownership; Mayors; Pre-Nakba life; Qurʼānic teaching; Social relations; Students; Sūq; Water resources

00:13:24 - Cultural and political life at al-Zīb

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Majdalāwī, Saʻd (Poet); al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Landowner); al-Saʻdī, Muṣṭafá (Land owner); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).

Families: al-Saʻdī; ʻAṭāyā.

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Brides; Communal celebrations; Courts; Dabkah; Dietary practices; Entertainment; Families; Family relations; Foreigners; Gunshots; Herbal remedies; Hospitality; Hospitals; Injuries; Jokes; Means of transportation; Murder; Poets; Pre-Nakba life; Social relations; Traditional medical procedures; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; ʻAtābā

00:38:43 - Work and cultural life

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Jammāl, Aḥmad (Guard); Fāris, Salīm ‘Alī (Martyr).

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Keywords: British Army, Royal Engineers; British army camps; Carpenters; Crafts; Family relations; Family structure; Gender role; Guards; Haganah; Marriage; Murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Trains; Wives; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Zīb (Palestine)

00:52:20 - Palestinian-Jewish relations and Battles

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Partial Transcript: Families: ‘Aṭāyā.

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Keywords: Arrest; Ashkenazi Jews; British Army; British authorities; British colonialism; Buses; Employment; Expulsion; Hiding; House burning; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlements; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Land sale; Leaving; Lies; Martyrs; Mayors; Medical aid; Mines; Murder; Nahariya (Palestine); Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peasant workers; Skirmishes; Tanks; Terrorism; Trade; Village siege; Ḥanūṭah (Palestine)

01:06:56 - Bitterness of exile and hope of return

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAwaḍ, Sulaymān Mūsá (Revolutionary); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Yamanī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Qiblāwī, Abū Mūsá (Revolutionary); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Baytam, Rufayyiḍ (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Mughrabī, Abū ‘Āṭif (Revolutionary leader).

Families: ‘Aṭāyā.

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Keywords: Collaboration; Collaborationists; Expulsion from Palestine; Grief; Guards; Land ownership; Leaving; Lebanon; Official documents; Peasants; Photographs; Zionist occupation; al-Zīb (Palestine)