Interview with Aḥmad Muḥammad Muṣṭafá مقابلة مع أحمد محمد مصطفى

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:09 - Socio-economic life at al-Khiṣāṣ

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Khalīl, Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb (Teacher); Shiḥādah, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Juwayyid, ‘Aṭīyah Muḥammad (Village leader).

Families: Shiḥādah; Juwayyid.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nahr al-Ḥaṣbānī (River); Nab‘ Tall al-Qāḍī (River); Nahr al-Wazzānī (River).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Arbitration; Childhood; Education; Expulsion; Farm animals; Fathers; Home demolition; Irrigation; Neighboring villages; Pre-Nakba life; Rivers; Rural life; Schools; Self-sufficiency; Shootings; Students; Terrorism; Zionist occupation; al-Khiṣāṣ (Palestine)

00:11:20 - Cultural life, settler colonialism, and Zionist invasion

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agriculture; Arabs; Border guards; Brides; British-Jewish relations; Burial; Defense; Economic hardship; Expulsion; Home demolition; Hospitality; Invitations; Jewish immigrants; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlements; Land expropriation; Massacres; Military superiority; Relief; Self-sufficiency; Settler colonialism; Shootings; Terrorism; Violation of humanitarian law; War crimes; Weapon acquisition; Wedding traditions; al-Khiṣāṣ (Palestine)

00:31:42 - Expulsion and nostalgia

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Keywords: Displacement; Expulsion; Homeland; Nostalgia; Passing on memories; Pre-Nakba life; Refugee experience; Return; Routes; Terrorism