Interview with Fawzīyah Sulaymān مقابلة مع فوزية سليمان

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:10 - Childhood and customs

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural economics; Agricultural land lease; Agricultural products; British police forces; Buses; Children's games; Dietary practices; Family structure; Fathers; Irrigation; Land ownership; Mothers; Olive Oil; Shaʻb (Palestine); Sūq; Water resources; Women; al-Kābrī (Palestine); ʻĪd celebrations

00:19:36 - Social life and customs in Shaʻb

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Partial Transcript: Families: Fāʻūr; Manṣūr; Ḥusayn; al-Khaṭīb; al-Shaykh Muḥammad; al-Zaytūn; ʻAbbūd; ʻĪd.

Significant Figures: Ḥamzah, Amīn (Mayor); Fāʻūr, Fāʻūr (Mayor); al-Manṣūr, Sulaymān (Mayor).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Arbitration; Blood money; Bridal customs; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Churches; Dīwān; Employment; Entertainment; Guests; Hospitality; Interreligious relations; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Mosques; Murder; Ramaḍān; Religious diversity; Shaʻb (Palestine); Trials and tribulations; Village leaders; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions

00:46:28 - Community life in Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Khaṭīb.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Banāt al-ʻAyn (Maqām); Aḥmad al-ʻUlaymī (Maqām); al-Shaykh Shukur (Maqām).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: ʻAyn al-ʻAsal (Water resource).

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Keywords: Circumcision; Graveyards; Religious belief; Traditional medical procedures; Water resources; al-Khawālid (Arab tribe)

00:53:47 - Political conditions during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Khaṭīb.

Landmarks- Monuments: Qalʻat Jiddīn (Fortress).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; British authorities; British colonialism; Childbirth; Childhood memories; Family relations; Home demolition; House raid; Midwives; Mistreatment; Mothers; Nahariya (Jewish Settlement: Palestine); Pregnancies; Prisoners' treatment; Revolutionaries; Shaʻb (Palestine); Vandalism; Villages; al-Kābrī (Palestine); al-Rāmīyah (Prison: Palestine)

01:10:57 - Zionist occupation of Palestine during 1948

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj ʻAbd, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Muḥammad Salīm, Kāyid (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British police forces; British-Jewish relations; Buses; Employment; Executions; Injuries; Jerusalem (Palestine); Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Military withdrawal; Mines; Priests; Return; Seeking refuge; Shaʻb (Palestine); Shootings; Weapon acquisition; Weapon trade; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Birwah Battle, 1948; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

01:29:47 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Atrocities of war; Childhood dreams; Dispersion; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Family relations; Land purchase; Murder; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Public lands; Ramaḍān; Religious belief; Return; Routes; Seeking refuge; Shaʻb (Palestine); Weapons; Zionist occupation; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948