Interview with Jamīlah Ḥasan Khaḍrah مقابلة مع جميلة حسن خضرة

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

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Partial Transcript: Families: Ḥamdān; al-Nāṭūr; al-Shaḥtarī; Khaḍrah.

Significant Figures: Khaḍrah, Ḥasan (Mayor).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural products; British army camps; British colonialism; Brothers; Children's games; Conduct of life; Death; Dietary practices; Dwellings; Education; Embroidery; Employment; Family structure; Farmers; Farming practices; Girls; Hawshah (Palestine); Jewish neighbors; Jews; Khirbat al-Kasāyir (Palestine); Kufayrāt (Palestine); Land purchase; Land sale; Mayors; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Religious schooling; Rural life; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Socio-economic conditions; Water wells; Women in agriculture

00:17:25 - Cultural and social life at Khirbat al-Kasāyir

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Nāṭūr; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; British colonialism; Circumcision; Death; Dowry; Entertainment; Explosions; Farmers; Folk poetry; Folk songs; Haifa (Palestine); Hospitality; Injuries; Intervillage relations; Jews; Landowners; Manners; Marriage proposals; Mayors; Religious belief; Trade; Traditional medical procedures; Ululation; Village siege; Wedding celebration; Wedding presents; Zionist occupation

00:42:50 - Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arrest; Atrocities of war; British colonialism; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Crimes against individuals; Death; Emotions; Executions; Honor; Humiliation; Injustice; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Martyrs; Military superiority; Psychological warfare; Revolutionary songs; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Shootings; Terrorism; Village siege; Women; Zionists; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:56:09 - Zionist invasion and expulsion of Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Jammāl, Yūsuf (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Babies; Bombings; British-Jewish relations; Burial; Caves; Daughters; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Death; Displacement; Druzes; Emotions; Expulsion; Hardship; Hawshah (Palestine); Home demolition; House raid; Jaysh Shakīb Wahhāb; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlements; Khirbat al-Kasāyir (Palestine); Leaving; Mayors; Military aid; Military superiority; Olive trees; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Psychological warfare; Refugee experience; Resistance; Routes; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Weapon acquisition; Zionist occupation; al-Rāmah (Palestine)