Interview with Āminah al-Sayyid مقابلة مع آمنة السيّد

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood and cultural life in Saʻsaʻ

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor).

Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; Ḥammād; al-Ḥāj; Khalīl.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Sayidah Nafīsah (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Sabalān (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; British army camps; Children's games; Family names; Family structure; Fathers; Hebrew; Jewish immigrants; Land ownership; Medical doctors; Neighboring villages; Rural life; Safad (Palestine); Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Settler colonialism; Sewing; Tobacco industry; Traders; Traditional medical procedures; Village siege; Women education

00:13:42 - Political conditions and turmoil

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Imprisonment; Neighboring villages; News; Prisoners' treatment; Revolutionaries; Safad (Palestine); Seeking refuge; Terrorism; Weapon acquisition; Zionist occupation; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938

00:20:04 - Evacuation orders from Saʻsaʻ

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Partial Transcript: Families: Balʻūs.

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Keywords: Bombardment; City occupation; Dwellings; Evacuation orders; Expulsion; Guards; Hospitality; Protection; Rmaysh (Lebanon); Safad (Palestine); Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Seeking refuge; Terrorism

00:26:19 - Zionist invasion during 1948 and expulsion

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAzzām, Ᾱminah (Martyr); Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); Yāsīn, ʻAql (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Ḥāmid (Martyr); Ghunayyim, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); ʻAzzām, Shaykhah al-Dīb (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Atrocities of war; Bombardment; Home demolition; Hope; Jewish settlements; Mines; Nostalgia; Personal belongings; Refugee experience; Routes; Safad (Palestine); Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Seeking refuge; Shootings; Terrorism; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; War crimes; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation