Interview with Zahrah ‘Alī Qāsim مقابلة مع زهرة علي قاسم

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood memories of life in ʻAyn al-Zaytūn

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Children's games; Economic measures; Employment; Family structure; Handicrafts; Islamic education; Means of transportation; Mothers; Orphans; Public schools; Rural life; Safad (Palestine); Shaykhs; Tailoring; Vehicles; Women education; Work

00:07:36 - Religious practices and interreligious relations

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Partial Transcript: Families: Khaṭṭār; al-Shaʻbī; Ḥammīd; Yāsīn; al-Ḥamad.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Muḥammad al-Qulaylī (Maqām); al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); Zilak (Maqām).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Building practices; Dwellings; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Hospitality; Income; Jewish neighbors; Land ownership; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Religious belief; Sabbath; Safad (Palestine); Sephardim Jews; Settler colonialism; Trade; Villagers; Water resources; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine)

00:27:43 - Battles and ʻAyn al-Zaytūn massacre

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Khaṭṭār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Shaʻbī, Nimir (Martyr); al-Shaʻbī, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Idrīs, Jamīl (Martyr); Khaṭṭār, Amīnah al-Shāwīsh (Martyr); al-Sa‘īd, Nahlah (Martyr).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Atrocities of war; Attack; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Bombardment; British high commissioner; British-Jewish relations; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Child killings; Children in armed conflicts; Crimes against humanity; Deception; Displacement; Guards; Gunshots; Haganah; Home bombing; Home demolition; Injuries; Medical doctors; Military superiority; Mines; Mothers; Psychological warfare; Resistance; Routes; Safad (Palestine); Settler colonialism; Skirmishes; Terrorism; Theft; Village occupation; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Massacre, 1948

00:52:36 - Zionist terrorism and occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥammīd, Qāsim al-Ḥāj (Martyr); Ḥammīd, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Shaʻbī, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Shaʻbī, Ḥāmid (Martyr); Khaṭṭār, Amīn (Martyr); al-Shaʻbī, Mirʻī (Martyr); al-Shaʻbī, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Ghurayyib, Muḥammad (Missing person); Ghurayyib, ‘Alī (Missing person).

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Keywords: Arrest; Bombardment; Collaborationists; Curfew; Disappearances; Druzes; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Elderly people; Expulsion from Palestine; Haganah; Home bombing; Home demolition; Infiltration; Jamʻiyyat al-Najdah al-Ijtimāʻīyah; Jewish immigrants; Mass graves; Mayors; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Political prisoners; Psychological warfare; Relief; Terrorism; Traitors; Zionist Forces; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Massacre, 1948

01:07:59 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Arrest; Crimes; Deception; Dispersion; Displacement; Forced evacuation; Homeland; House keys; Land deeds; Lebanon; Nostalgia; Palestinian diaspora; Passing on memories; Possessions; Right of return; Sons; Suffering; Syrian Government; Terrorism; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine)