Interview with Muḥammad al-Ḥāj Khalīl Ḥabīb Allāh مقابلة مع محمد الحاج خليل حبيب الله

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

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Murād, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Teacher); al-Sakhnīnī, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Ṣafadī, Rāghib (Shaykh).

Families: Ḥabīb Allāh; Abū Layl.

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Keywords: Dwellings; Family structure; Fathers; Islamic education; Students; ʻAyn Māhil (Palestine)

00:05:49 - Social life and pre-Nakba geographical territories

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Dyāb, Yūsuf (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Deception; Employment; Handicrafts; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Jordan River; Nazareth (Palestine); Neighboring villages; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Safad (Palestine); Settler colonialism; Trees; Water resources; Wādī Ḥunayn (Palestine); ʻAyn Māhil (Palestine)

00:17:43 - Community life and traditions

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Keywords: Collaborationists; Dowry; Grooms; Marriage proposals; Population; Traditional medical procedures; Ululation; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; Zaffah; ʻArab al-Ṣubayḥ Battle, 1948; ʻAyn Māhil (Palestine)

00:29:08 - Political conditions

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Dyāb, Yūsuf (Revolutionary leader); Dyāb, Fahd al-Ḥāj Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Saʻīd, ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Shaykh Ḥasan Balqāwī, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Qārūṭ, Muḥammad Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Daḥlī, Muḥammad (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad (Mayor); Abū Durrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); al-ʻAbd, Ḥasan (Mayor).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Assassination; Battles; Bombardment; British authorities; British colonialism; British policy; Convoys; Disputes; Graveyards; Haganah; Histadrut; House raid; Injustice; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Jewish immigration; Jordanian Army; Military superiority; Mines; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193; Settler colonialism; Strikes; Truces; Vandalism; Village siege

00:51:10 - Palestine during 1948 and political activity

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Blūdan Conference (1937: Bloudan, Syria); British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Child killings; Crimes against humanity; Damaged weapons; Employment; Jaffa (Palestine); Murder; Partition plan, 1947; Psychological warfare; Resistance; Safad (Palestine); Shootings; Tel Aviv (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Terrorism; Treason; Weapon acquisition; Weapons confiscation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Difāʻ (Newspaper); al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻArab al-Ṣubayḥ Battle, 1948; ʻArab al-Ṣubayḥ Massacre, 1948; ʻAyn Māhil (Palestine)

01:16:18 - Loss and expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Identity cards; Nostalgia; Prisoners; Refugee experience; Resistance; Return; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Shajarah Battle, 1948; ʻAyn Māhil (Palestine)