Interview with Shiḥādah Jumʻah Shatlah مقابلة مع شحادة جمعة شتلة

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

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Ṭabarī.

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural income; Celebrations; Children's games; Dīwān; Elderly people; Family structure; Fathers; Land ownership; Mayors; Pre-Nakba life; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Religious education; Respect; Shaykhs; Social norms; Social relations; Trade; al-Buwayzīyah (Palestine)

00:22:36 - Religious beliefs and community life at al-Buwayzīyah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī (Maqām).

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Keywords: British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building practices; Dwellings; Graveyards; Hunting; Intervillage relations; Land ownership; Mayors; Muslims; Population; Praying; Public lands; Religious belief; Social classes; Trees; Villages; al-Buwayzīyah (Palestine)

00:40:23 - Cultural life and customs at al-Buwayzīyah

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Keywords: Arbitration; Arranged marriage; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Courts; Disputes; Horseback riding; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Marriage proposals; Social relations; Songs; Wedding traditions; al-Buwayzīyah (Palestine); al-Khāliṣah (Palestine)

00:56:23 - Political conditions and revolution support

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Battles; British-Jewish relations; Checkpoints; Collaborationists; Exile; Gunshots; Haganah; Interreligious marriage; Irgun; Jaffa (Palestine); Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Jewish settlements; Lies; Mayors; Murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police; Political parties; Revolutionaries; Rifles; Stern; Tel Aviv (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Village occupation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Buwayzīyah (Palestine); Ḥizb al-Najjādah

01:17:39 - Zionist invasion of al-Buwayzīyah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥusayn, Abū Khalīl Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab countries; Armed patrols; Damaged weapons; Deception; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Haganah; News; Poetry; Resistance; Shaykhs; Shootings; Skirmishes; Treason; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Buwayzīyah (Palestine)

01:33:20 - Expulsion and treason

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Keywords: Arab countries; Deception; Displacement; Expulsion; Forced evacuation; Leaving; Mantaqat Imtiyāz al-Ḥūlah (Palestine); Martyrdom; Mays al-Jabal (Lebanon); Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Refugee aid; Return; Rmaysh (Lebanon); Routes; Rulers; Treason; Zionist occupation