Interview with ‘Abd al-Laṭīf Kanafānī مقابلة مع عبد اللطيف كنفاني

Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Islāmīyah (School); Frères Maris School (School); Catholic School (School); Sicilian School (School); Holy Family Hospital (Hospital); al-Mustashfá al-Almānī (Hospital); Saint Luke's School (School).

Significant Figures: al-Qaṣṣāb, Kāmil (Principal); al-Ḥabbāl, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf (Teacher); Blayq, Najīb (Teacher); Ḥammād, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Ṭāhir, Muṣṭafá (Teacher).

Families: al-Mīqātī; al-Jārūdī; al-Nūrī; Ni‘mah; Shbīb; al-Kanafānī.

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Catholic Club; Dwellings; Education; Family structure; Fathers; Haifa (Palestine); Jerusalem (Palestine); Marriage; Neighborhoods; Nādī Shabāb al-ʻArab; Nādī al-Dajānī; Nādī al-Tarsānah; Palestinian Orthodox Clubs; Qurʼānic teaching; Sa‘d, Ma‘rūf, 1910-1975; Scouts; Sports; Students; Traders; Trees; Ṭāhā, Sāmī, 1916-1947; a-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; al-Jamʻīyah al-Islāmīyah; al-Nādī al-Riyāḍī al-Islāmī fī Yāfā

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Jāmi‘ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Rashīd (Leader).

Families: Shiblāq.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Kulīyat al-Quds (University).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); Clothing and dresses; Currencies; Education; Family names; Haifa (Palestine); Law; Martyrdom; Neighbors; Political activity; Revolutionaries; Sa‘d, Ma‘rūf, 1910-1975; Scouts; Smuggling; Social relations; Strikes; Students; Sūq; Teachers; Trade; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khāl, Yūsuf (Teacher); Wakīm, George (Teacher).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Dā’irat al-Mālīyah (Governmental institution).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Arrest; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Haifa (Palestine); Ḥusayn, King of Jordan, 1935-1999; Military strategy; National identity; Political activity; Resistance; Saida (Lebanon); Saʻādah, Anṭūn, 1904-1949; Students; Ṣāʼigh, Yūsuf ʻAbd Allāh, 1916-2004; Weapons; Zionism; al-Ḥizb al-Sūrī al-Qawmī al-Ijtimāʻī

Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Dā’irat al-Mālīyah (Governmental institution); Bayt al-Māl al-ʻArabī (Financial institution).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Education; Jerusalem (Palestine); Leaders; Military training; Organizations; Political activity; Ṣāʼigh, Yūsuf ʻAbd Allāh, 1916-2004; Taxation; Ṭannūs, ʻIzzat, 1896-; al-Hay’ah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Levy, Shabtai (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Rahmān (Mayor).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: British army camps; Deception; Handicrafts; Jamʻiyyat al-ʻUmmāl al-ʻArabīyah al-Filasṭīnīyah; Jewish immigration; Machination; Musicians; Neighborhoods; Nādī al-Dajānī; Nādī al-Tahzīb w al-Muwasāt; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Return; Rural-urban migration; Settler colonialism; Sports; Trade; Zionist colonization; al-Nādī al-Riyāḍī al-Islāmī fī Yāfā

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Fāḍil, Munīr (Policeman).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Bernadotte, Folke, 1850-1948; British high commissioner; Brothers; Curfew; Displacement; Employment; Expulsion; Family reunification; Haganah; Haifa (Palestine); Idhāʻat al-Sharq al-Adná; Irgun; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Jerusalem (Palestine); King David Hotel bombing, 1946; Mines; Murder; National identity; Nostalgia; Political activity; Political prisoners; Return; Snipers; Ṣāʼigh, Yūsuf ʻAbd Allāh, 1916-2004; Ṭannūs, ʻIzzat, 1896-; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Arab countries; Book reviews; Emotions; Hope; Nakba; Nostalgia; Personal belongings; Return; Suffering; Travel; Zionist occupation