Interview with Aḥmad Rabī‘ مقابلة مع أحمد ربيع

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Shāʻir, ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary leader); al-Shāʻir, Rashīd (Martyr); Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); Khalīl, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Khalīl, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Yāsīn, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj ʻUthmān, Salīm (Martyr); ʻUrābī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Shāʻir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Ghunaym, Nāyif (Revolutionary leader); Mughrabī, Abū ʻᾹṭif (Revolutionary leader); Ḥassān, Maḥmūd (Political prisoner); al-Ghrayrī, Ḥusayn (Political prisoner); Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Ghunaym, Nāyif (Revolutionary); al-‘Ankūsh, Ṣubḥī (Prisoner).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Jarmaq (Mountain).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Akka (Prison: Palestine); Arrest; Battles; British colonialism; Childhood memories; Clans; Clashes; Collaborationist; Conspiracy; Courts; Escape; Executions; General amnesty; Guards; Injuries; Mayors; Murder; Safad (Palestine); Shootings; Treason; Truces; Weapons; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938

00:19:41 - Childhood in Palestine

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Keywords: Economic conditions; Employment; Fathers; Horseback riding; Inheritance; Landowners; Safad (Palestine)

00:25:07 - Cultural and community life

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Khaḍrā; Qaddūrah; Murād; al-Naḥawī; al-Asadī; al-Ẓawāhirī; Ṭāfish; ʻArab.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: al-Zāwiyah (School); Madrasat al-Jāmiʻ al-Aḥmar (School).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kanʻān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British police forces; Building practices; Celebrations; Clothing and dresses; Disputes; Employment; Grooms; Horseback riding; Hospitality; Marriage proposals; Neighborhoods; Neighboring villages; Population; Safad (Palestine); Scout; Sūq; Trade; Wedding traditions; ʻAtābā

00:42:14 - Social life and religious beliefs

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Partial Transcript: Families: Ḥaddād; ʻĪd; ʻAzār.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ Ḥarat al-Waṭāt (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Sūq (Mosque); al-Jāmi‘ al-Aḥmar (Mosque); Banāt Ḥāmid (Maqām); Abū Qamīṣ (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Zuhūrī (Maqām).

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Keywords: Churches; Coexistence; Customs and traditions; Deception; Disputes; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Historic buildings; Hospitality; Interreligious marriage; Jewish immigrants; Najmat al-Ṣubuḥ (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Nazareth (Palestine); Neighborhoods; Neighbors; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Psychological warfare; Safad (Palestine)

00:59:07 - Arab Salvation Army withdrawal from Safad

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Shāhīn, Saʻīd (Martyr); Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd (Border guard).

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Keywords: Ammunition; British police forces; Deception; Displacement; Escape; Guards; Gunshots; Jordanian Army; Mass murder; Military training; Military withdrawal; Mines; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Return; Safad (Palestine); Syrian Army; Weapon acquisition; Weapon trade; Yugoslavs; Zionist occupation; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

01:17:29 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Dispersion; Displacement; Dreams; Expulsion from Palestine; Personal belongings; Refugee experience; Return; Routes