Interview with Ṭāhā Salīm Zayd مقابلة مع طه سليم زيد

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

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural income; Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British policy; Children's games; Farming practices; Fathers; Harvesting; Intervillage relations; Schooling; Socio-economic conditions; Threshing; Tobacco industry; Work; al-Ẓāhirīyah (Palestine); ʻAkbarah (Palestine)

00:15:42 - Community life at al-Ẓāhirīyah

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Partial Transcript: Families: Zayd; Shāhīn.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Quwayyis (Maqām).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Building practices; Death; Dwellings; Entertainment; Jewish immigrants; Land ownership; Landowners; Murder; Religious belief; Safad (Palestine); Shootings; Water resources; Weapon acquisition; al-Ẓāhirīyah (Palestine)

00:35:49 - Palestinian-Jewish relations in mandatory Palestine

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Keywords: Arab countries; Deception; Interpersonal relations; Jewish neighbors; Judaism; Neighborhoods; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Psychological warfare; Work; al-Ẓāhirīyah (Palestine)

00:44:13 - Social norms and community life

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Partial Transcript: Families: Ṣāliḥ.

Significant Figures: al-Bīṭār, Sa‘īd Sulaymān (Landowner).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Brides; Brothers; Courts; Grooms; Intervillage relations; Invitations; Marriage proposals; Mayors; Murder; Punishment; Revolutionary songs; Road blocks; Social norms; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; al-Ẓāhirīyah (Palestine); ʻAtābā; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine)

01:04:02 - Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Qashqūsh, Ḥāmid (Revolutionary); Shāhīn, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonialism; Clothing and dresses; Crimes; Death; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Mayors; Murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pamphlets; Revolutionaries; Skirmishes

01:09:40 - Palestine during 1948 events

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Zayd, Shukrī (Martyr); Ṭarawīyah, Ṭāhā (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Amīn, Nazhah (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Displacement; Evacuation orders; Mayors; Military training; Mines; Rifles; Safad (Palestine); Syria; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Ẓāhirīyah (Palestine)

01:17:25 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Displacement; Dreams; Expulsion from Palestine; Land deeds; Nostalgia; Passing on memories; Routes; Safad (Palestine); Seeking refuge