Interview with Ibrāhīm ʻAdawī مقابلة مع إبراهيم عدوي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:04 - Childhood and education

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Khālid, Shākir (Shaykh).

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Keywords: Children's games; Education; Family structure; Fathers; Jerusalem (Palestine); Orphans; Qurʼānic teaching; Schools; Social norms; Uncles; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine); al-Kābrī (Palestine)

00:10:09 - Socio-economic conditions at al-Ghābisīyah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor).

Families: ʻAwaḍ; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl.

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Akka (Palestine); Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbitration; Bedouins; British army camps; British colonialism; British policy; Buses; Coexistence; Conspiracy; Deception; Druzes; Dīwān; Entertainment; Exports; Farmers; Homeland; Identity cards; Income; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Maps; Maqām; Neighboring villages; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police; Population; Socio-economic conditions; Sūq; Traders; Village leaders; Village siege; Work; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine)

00:31:52 - Customs and traditions

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Farfaḥīnī, Dīb (Poet); al-Ammūnī, Yaḥyá (Poet); Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Sa‘īd (Poets).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Entertainment; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Haifa (Palestine); Hospitality; Marriage proposals; Mourning; Revolutionary songs; Social classes; Social norms; Wedding celebration; Wedding traditions; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī; ʻĪd celebrations

00:43:39 - Battles and war events

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Ammunition; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; Assassination; Bombings; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; Collaborationists; Damaged weapons; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Deception; Displacement; Germans; Hospitality; House raid; Imprisonment; Jewish immigration; Jordanian Army; Maps; Mayors; Medical aid; Mines; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Radio stations; Revolutionaries; Vandalism; Village siege; Volunteering; Weapons confiscation; World War, 1939-1945; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948

01:06:00 - Expulsion from Palestine and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Attempt at return; Deception; Dispersion; Displacement; Evacuation orders; Forced evacuation; Homeland; Imprisonment; Lebanon; Military withdrawal; Mothers; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Psychological warfare; Refugee experience; Return; Routes; Terrorism; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine); al-Nabaṭīyah al-Taḥtā (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon, 1974)