Interview with Sāmī Yāsīn مقابلة مع سامي ياسين

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Education and childhood in Tiberias

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Government School of Palestine (School).

Significant Figures: Sayf al-Dīn, Ṭalʻat (School principal); Tahtamūnī, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Ṣāyigh, Fāyiz (Teacher).

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Keywords: British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Coexistence; Fathers; Jewish immigration; Medical care; Rural-urban migration; Scouts; Sports; Trade; Weather; Women education; World Zionist Organization

00:11:06 - Socio-political dynamics during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Ṭabarī; al-Sakhnīnī; al-Baghdādī; Sūṭarī.

Significant Figures: Darwīsh, Yūsuf (Mayor).

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Keywords: Battles; Children; Cities and towns; Coexistence; Conspiracy; Deception; Fall; Guards; Interreligious relations; Jewish immigrants; Jewish immigration; Jewish neighbors; Land appropriation; Military training; Neighboring villages; Origins; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Professions; Protests against settlements; Religious diversity; Sephardim Jews; Settlement expansion; Settler colonialism; Skirmishes; Tiberias (Palestine); Trade; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Truces; Water resources; Weapon acquisition; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Shajarah (Palestine)

00:33:07 - Community life at al-Shajarah

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Partial Transcript: Families: Bawākīr; al-Khuṭabah; al-Ḥayātlī; Salaymī.

Significant Figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-ʻAlī, Nājī (Painter).

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Keywords: Celebrations; Education; Employment; Grooms; Horseback riding; Hospitality; Interreligious marriage; Invitations; Poetry; Reading; Social relations; Ululation; Wedding traditions; al-Shajarah (Palestine)

00:49:46 - Skirmishes with Jewish settlers in Tiberias

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Torrance (Hospital); Egged Bus Company (Corporation).

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Keywords: Arab countries; Battles; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Brokers; Clothing and dresses; Deception; Displacement; Guards; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Jewish settlements; Kibbutzim; Land brokers; Land purchase; Military superiority; Neighborhoods; Relief; Resistance movements; Shootings; Snipers; Tiberias (Palestine); Truces; Zionist occupation

01:02:52 - al-Shajrah battle and expulsion from Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader); ʻUlūṭī, Faḍl (Martyr); Ḥasan Salāymī, Fāliḥ (Martyr).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Arab Salvation Army; Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); Bombardment; Damaged weapons; Displacement; Israeli Invasion of South Lebanon, 1978; Lūbyā (Palestine); Martyrdom; Mass murder; Military strategy; Military withdrawal; Passing on memories; Psychological warfare; Refugee experience; Resistance; Routes; Skirmishes; Suffering; Tiberias (Palestine); Village siege; Zionist occupation; al-Shajarah Battle, 1948; ʻAnjar (Lebanon); ʻArab al-Ṣubayḥ Massacre, 1948; ʻAylabūn (Palestine)