Interview with Salwá ʻAwn Allāh مقابلة مع سلوى عون الله

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Women education and Employment

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Raʾūfah ʻAwn Allāh (School principal); Rizq, Wasīlah (School principal); Sulaymān, Olga (Teacher); Ṣabbāgh, Mary (Teacher); Wihbī, Fahīmah (Teacher).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Orphanage English School (School).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Dar al-Muʻallimāt (School).

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Keywords: Boarding schools; British policy; Celebrations; Clothing and dresses; Dwellings; Education; Family structure; House rent; Jerusalem (Palestine); Land ownership; Landowners; Moroccans; Nazareth (Palestine); Public schools; Social norms; Strikes; Tiberias (Palestine); Women education; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

00:19:22 - Cultural life and social conditions in Nazareth

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Bishārah, Salīm (Mayor).

Families: ʻAwn Allāh; al-Fahhūm; al-Zuʻbī; al-Ḍāhir; al-Ṣafaḍī; al-ʻAfīfī; Manṣūr; Qaʻwār; al-Khūrī; Bishārah; al-Ruzayl; Billān; Srūjī; al-Baṭḥīsh.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church); Kanīsat ʻAyn al-ʻAdhrāʾ (Church); Kanīsat al-Rūm (Church), Protestant Church (Church); Catholic Chuch (Church); Rāhibāt al-Ṭilyān (Convent); Dayr Rāhibāt al-Nāṣirah (Convent); Rāhibāt al-Maḥaddah (Convent); Jāmiʻ al-Salām (Mosque).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Taʻālīm al-Qissīs (School); Barclays Bank (Bank); al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Ṣuluḥ (Court).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbitration; Bridal customs; British colonialism; Charity; Cities and towns; Clothing and dresses; Coexistence; Crafts; Dowry; Elections; Embroidery; Generosity; Historic buildings; Interreligious relations; Judges; Marriage proposals; Neighborhoods; Prisons; Professions; Public schools; Religious diversity; Religious schooling; Revolutionaries; Sūq; Wedding traditions; al-Hayʼah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā; ʻĪd celebrations

00:45:03 - Socio-political conditions in pre-Nakba Nazareth

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAwn Allāh, Raʾūf (Revolutionary); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ʻUways, Shafīq (Revolutionary); Khalaf, Ḥanná (Revolutionary).

Families: al-Fahhūm.

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural economics; Akka (Prison: Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arbitration; Arrest; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British authorities; Coexistence; Collaboration; Damaged weapons; Economic conditions; Haganah; Home demolition; House burning; Imprisonment; Jewish immigrants; Nazareth (Palestine); News; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Psychological warfare; Radio stations; Religious diversity; Revolutionary leadership; Strikes; Syria; Tanks; Terrorism; Weapon acquisition; al-Hayʼah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

01:04:04 - Expulsion from Ṣaffūrīyah and suffering

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Partial Transcript: Families: Mawʻid.

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Atrocities of war; Bint Jubayl; Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); Charity; Death; Deception; Demolition; Emotions; Exile; Family reunification; Hospitality; House rent; Injuries; Israeli colonization; Martyrs; Nazareth (Palestine); Olive trees; Painting; Personal belongings; Ramaḍān; Refugee experience; Return; Rmaysh (Lebanon); Routes; Saida (Lebanon); Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Shootings; Smuggling; Terrorism; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)