Interview with Muḥammad al-Ḥāj Ḥasan مقابلة مع محمد الحاج حسن

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Education and agriculture at Shaʻb

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Fāʻūr; al-Khaṭīb; Ḥamzah; al-Ḥāj Ḥasan; Ḥusayn.

Significant Figures: al-Fāʻūr, Rashīd (Village leader); al-Khaṭīb, Waḥsh (Village leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural machinery; Agricultural products; Arab Revolt (1936-1939); Arbitration; British colonialism; Camels; Childhood dreams; Children's games; Clans; Cows; Cultivation; Disputes; Education; Employment; Farming practices; Intervillage relations; Irrigation; Landowners; Olive oil mills; Olive trees; Police; Rural areas; Schools; Sūq; Teachers; Trade; Water resources; Women education; Work songs

00:16:30 - Community life in Shaʻb

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥumayīd, Muḥammad (Poet).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Saʻīd (Maqām); al-Shaykh Shukur (Maqām); Banāt al-ʻAyn (Maqām).

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Keywords: Childbirth; Christians; Churches; Circumcision; Dhabīḥah; Governmental institutions; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Mosques; Wedding celebration

00:20:55 - Military activity during the Zionist invasion

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥamīd, Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Shākir, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥamzah, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Abū al-Hayjā, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Manṣūr, ʻAlī Sulaymān (Resistance fighter); al-Muṭlaq, Nāyif (Resistance fighter); al-Ghaḍbān, Saʻīd (Resistance fighter); al-Ghaḍbān, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj ʻAlī, Ibrāhīm (Resistance leader); Abū Dyāb, ‘Umar (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Ambushes; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Attack; British-Jewish relations; Conspiracy; Convoys; Damaged weapons; Disputes; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Harvesting time; Home bombing; Jewish settlements; Killing; Leaders; Military orders; Military withdrawal; Political prisoners; Property destruction; Resistance movements; Revolutionaries; Road blocks; Routes; Tanks; Terrorism; Treason; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Birwah Battle, 1948; Ḥāmiyat Shaʻb

00:37:33 - The expulsion to Lebanon

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Coups d'état; Dispersion; Displacement; Exile; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Military withdrawal; Refugee experience; Routes; Suffering; Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948