Interview with Aḥmad Shafīq al-Khaṭīb مقابلة مع أحمد شفيق الخطيب

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaṭīb, Shafīq (Mayor).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Kullīyat Rawḍat al-Maʻārif (School).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Birth certificates; Boarding schools; Courts; Education; Elementary schools; Entertainment; Family structure; Fathers; Feudalism; Jerusalem (Palestine); Judges; Mayors; Neighboring villages; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Trade; Yublá (Palestine); al-Lidd (Palestine); al-Qubaybah (Palestine); al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Jadīlī; Sulṭān.

Significant Figures: Shāhīn, Mūsá (Mayor); Yūnus, Muḥammad ʻᾹrif (School principal).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nahr Rūbīn (River).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; British White Paper, 1939; British-Jewish relations; Courts; Dīwān; Education; Exports; Farmers; Fathers; Generosity; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Jaffa (Palestine); Jewish immigration; Judges; Leaders; Partition plan, 1947; Ports; Reading; Religious belief; Storytelling; Tel Aviv (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Water wells; Weapon smuggling; al-Nabī Rūbīn (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Kuttah.

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Aḥmad, Fatḥīyah, 1898-1975; Arbitration; Businesses; Celebrations; Circumcision; Courts; Craftsmen; Customs and traditions; Economic conditions; Fathers; Honor; Hospitality; Judges; Land ownership; Leaders; Marriage; Means of transportation; Medical doctors; Songs; Trade; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Nabī Rūbīn (Palestine); al-Saṭrīyah (Arab tribe)

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Keywords: Hebrew; Jewish immigrants; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlements; Jordanian Army; Land expropriation; Land ownership; Land sale; Moshavim; Nashashibi, Ragheb, 1882-1951; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Plants; al-Fārūqī, Sulaymān al-Tājī, 1882-1958; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Sharkh, al-Sayyid (Mayor).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Armed resistance; Bombings; Defense; Displacement; Egyptian Army; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; House rent; Military withdrawal; Personal belongings; Relief; Routes; Usdūd Battle, 1948; Weapon trade; Women in armed conflicts; Yublá (Palestine); Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

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Keywords: Absentee property laws; Death; Dispersion; Education; Employment; Exile; Expulsion; Family structure; Fathers; Identity cards; Jordanian Government; Lebanese Government; Mothers; Passports; Return; Students; Teachers

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Keywords: Book reviews; Despair; Dictionaries; Employment; House rent; Mothers; Return