Interview with Ḥamīd Frayj مقابلة مع حميد فريج

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Qāsim, Ḥammūd (Teacher).

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Keywords: British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; Childhood dreams; Children's games; Education; Family structure; Intervillage relations; Living conditions; Marriage; Mothers; Orphans; Pregnancies; Schools; Siblings; Social norms; Socio-economic conditions; Suffering; Sūq; World War, 1939-1945; al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādah (Mayor); al-Yūsuf, Khalaf (Village leader); Zayn, Muḥammad Salīm (Public officer); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Leader).

Families: al-Shihābī; Ghulmīyah.

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural land lease; Agricultural products; Aid; Arbitration; Blood money; British Army; British authorities; Building practices; Christians; Complaints; Economic prosperity; Financial compensation; Governors; Illiteracy; Irrigation; Land appropriation; Land ownership; Land registration; Land sale; Lawyers; Marjaʻyūn (Lebanon); Murder; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Peasant workers; Public lands; Social norms; Sūq; Traders; Water resources

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj, Muṣliḥ (Musician); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbdū (Musician); al-Ḥmayyid, Muṣṭafá (Musician).

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Keywords: Arranged marriage; Benevolence; Bridal customs; Circumcision; Customs and traditions; Dabkah; Dowry; Educational grants; Farm animals; Feasts; Hospitality; Marriage proposals; Shaykhs; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawwī; ʻĪd celebrations

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Keywords: Ambushes; Bridges; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Brokers; Building practices; Convoys; Defense; Food; Horses; Income; Intervillage relations; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Mayors; Military officials; Palestine Post (Post office); Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pamphlets; Revolutionaries; Rifles; Socio-economic conditions; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Wedding celebration; Zionist colonization

Partial Transcript: Families: Francis.

Significant Figures: al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Leader).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Battles; Betrayal; Crimes against individuals; Damaged Weapons; Defense; Dinners and dinning; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Food; Forced migration; Guards; Gypsies; Harvesting; Home bombing; Homeland; Hostility; House burning; Imprisonment; Injuries; Jewish settlements; Lebanese Army; Medical care; Military orders; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police investigations; Prisoners' treatment; Psychological warfare; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Return; Safad (Palestine); Skirmishes; Suffering; Tear gas; Village leaders; Violation of humanitarian law; Water resources; Weapon acquisition; Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949; Zionist colonization; Zionist occupation