Interview with Fāṭimah ‘Abdullāh مقابلة مع فاطمة عبدالله

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:10 - Childhood during the Ottoman rule of Palestine, 1876-1918

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Shaykh Ḥusayn; ‘Uthmān; Mizyān; Jum‘ah; Farḥat; al-Ṭawīl.

SH: Farḥat, Ḥusayn (Olive mill owner).

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Keywords: Childbirth; Death; Farming practices; Grandfathers; Hunger; Identity cards; Landowners; Locust infestation; Migration; Neighbors; Poetry; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Wedding songs

00:13:09 - Cultural songs in Palestine

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Keywords: Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Childbirth; Christians; Circumcision; Druzes; Fathers; Grooms; Marriage proposals; Qurʼān recitations; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Ululation; Weddings; al-Barānkī (Nawar)

00:39:13 - Revolutionary songs

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-Ṣafadī, Saʻīd (Poet).

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Keywords: Qurʼān recitations; Qurʼān stories; Revolutionaries; Saʻsaʻ; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); ʻAtābah

00:52:55 - Religious beliefs

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Sit Nafīsah (Maqām); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Shajarah al-Maḥẓūrah (Maqām).

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Keywords: Death; Jews; Mourning; Songs

01:00:51 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Afandī.

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Keywords: Animals; Attack; Bombings; Demolition; Dispersion; Displacement; Disputes; Druzes; Economic conditions; Expulsion; Family relations; Humiliation; Killing; Land ownership; Leaving; Psychological warfare; Refugee experience; Rmaysh (Lebanon); Saʻsaʻ; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ḥurfaysh (Palestine)