Interview with Aḥmad Ḥusayn Ḥammūd مقابلة مع أحمد حسين حمود

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:04 - Childhood, social life, and customs

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Rasāṭimah; al-Ẓawāhirah; Ghazāziwah.

Significant Figures: al-Ḥasan, Mūsá (Mayor); al-Muḥsin, Masʻūd (Mayor).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Muḥammad al-Munṭār (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Arbitration; Blood money; Education; Entertainment; Family structure; Fathers; Hospitality; Jewish neighbors; Land rent; Marriage proposals; Moroccans; Murder; Neighboring villages; Punishment; Social relations; Trade; Tribal customs; Water resources; Wedding presents; Wedding traditions; Wādī al-Ḥundāj (Palestine); al-Hayb (Arab tribe)

00:20:16 - Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣāliḥ, Sulaymān Khālid (Revolutionary); al-Muḥammad, Sʻayyid (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Ḥummayḍah, Anīs (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Ambushes; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbitration; Arrest; Battles; British army camps; British colonialism; Collaboration; House raid; Injuries; Police stations; Prisoners' treatment; Revolutionary leadership; Secrecy; Syrian Government; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; al-Jāʻūnah (Palestine)

00:33:19 - Settlement expansion and the Zionist occuaption

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Khulayṣ, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army leader); ‘Ammār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); ‘Ammār; ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); al-Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter).

Families: Sursuq; Nuhrah; al-As‘ad.

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948; Bombardment; British-Jewish relations; Crimes against humanity; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Expulsion; Germans; Haganah; Home bombing; Injuries; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Jordanian Army; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Land purchase; Land sale; Lebanese Army; Mines; Nahariya (Palestine); Settlement expansion; Settler colonialism; Shootings; Trenches; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Work; Zionism; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist colonization; al-Harrāwī Battle, 1948; al-Manārah (Palestine); al-Mālikīyah Battle, 1948; al-Ḥusaynīyah Battle, 1948; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

01:02:24 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Discrimination practices; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Folk music; Folk songs; Homeland; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Lebanese Army; Mizrahi Jews; Nostalgia; Palestinian diaspora; Passing on memories; Qurʼān; Refugee experience; Return; Zionism; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist colonization; Zionist propaganda; al-Hayb (Arab tribe)