Interview with Muḥammad Jamīl Mash‘al مقابلة مع محمد جميل مشعل

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:06 - Childhood and social relations

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Jāmiʻ al-Aḥmar (School).

Significant Figures: Brayk, Shafīq (Teacher).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Banāt Yaʻqūb (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agriculture; Education; Farming practices; Hadar (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Interreligious relations; Orchards; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Religious diversity; Safad (Palestine); Socio-economic conditions; Sūq; Trade

00:09:26 - Community life and culture in Safad

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Keywords: Arbitration; Cities and towns; Customs and traditions; Dabkah; Interreligious relations; Marriage proposals; Mayors; Municipalities; Poets; Safad (Palestine); Social norms; Weddings; Wādī al-Ṭawāḥīn (Palestine); Zaffah; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī

00:17:43 - Political conditions and treason

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Landowner); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonialism; Expulsion; Guards; Mass murder; News; Revolutionaries; Safad (Palestine); Terrorism; Trade; Weapons; Zionist occupation; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Massacre, 1948

00:29:35 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Druzes; Economic conditions; Expulsion from Palestine; Greed; Israeli checkpoints; Land deeds; Land ownership; Passing on memories; Refugee experience; Return; Routes; Safad (Palestine); Suffering; Water resources