Interview with Maythah Muḥammad Mūsà مقابلة مع ميثة محمد موسى

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:07 - Community life and customs in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Dāwūd, ʻAlī (Teacher); al-Muṣṭafá, Ismāʻīl (Teacher); al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādh (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-Muṣṭafá, al-Dāwūd (Leader); al-Aḥmad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Aḥmad, ‘Abdullāh (Village leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arbitration; Bedouins; Blood money; Bridal customs; Building practices; Children's games; Circumcision; Clothing and dresses; Coffeehouses; Dabkah; Dhabīḥah; Dowry; Dwellings; Education; Engagement; Farm animals; Farmers; Gold; Intervillage relations; Marriage proposals; Pre-Nakba life; Schools; Sewing; Socio-economic conditions; Tattoos; Ululation; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī (Palestine); ʻAtābah

00:26:55 - Traditional Palestinian songs

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Keywords: Dalʻūnā; ʻAtābā

00:42:16 - Cultural life and beliefs

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Child mortality; Childbirth; Dietary practices; Entertainment; Farm animals; Haganah; Herbal remedies; Illness; Intervillage relations; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlements; Maqām; Midwives; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pamphlets; Prayers for rain; Religious belief; Return; Rivers; Shootings; Songs; Swimming; Terrorism; Water resources; Work; Zionist occupation

01:06:34 - Terrorism and expulsion from al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Zāʻil, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Mūsá, Maḥmūd (Martyr).

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Keywords: Buses; Child killings; Defense; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Farm animals; Home demolition; Husbands; Mayors; Mines; Murder; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Refugee experience; Return; Routes; Shootings; Suffering; War crimes; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī (Palestine)