Interview with Fāris Khalīl مقابلة مع فارس خليل

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:07 - Childhood and agriculture in Sabalān

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Caves; Children's games; Coexistence; Family structure; Farming practices; Fathers; Maqām; Qurʼānic teaching; Religious belief; Sabalān (Palestine); Shaykhs; Summer

00:10:00 - Social and community life

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Partial Transcript: Families: ʻAmir; Khalīl; al-Muḥammad.

Significant Figures: al-Muḥammad, Ḥusayn (Mayor).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arabs; Arbitration; British authorities; British policy; Building practices; Cooking; Deception; Dwellings; Hospitality; Housing; Land ownership; Land purchase; Maqām; Neighboring villages; Population; Quarries and quarrying; Sūq; Waqf; Water resources

00:24:13 - Political conditions and deception

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonialism; Buses; Collaborationists; Damaged weapons; Hunger; Jewish immigrants; Relief; Revolutionaries; Weapon acquisition

00:32:33 - Expulsion from Sabalān

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Displacement; Druzes; Fathers; Hiding; Homeland; Hope; Humiliation; Nostalgia; Passing on memories; Return; Routes; Skirmishes; Suffering; Terrorism; Village siege; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938