Interview with Aḥmad Āghā مقابلة مع أحمد آغا

Partial Transcript: Families: Sirḥān; Ᾱghā.

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Keywords: Conspiracy; Death; Fathers; Grandfathers; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Landowners; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Settler colonialism; Shootings; Tarshīḥā (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Qubbah, Maḥmūd (Teacher); Bishārah, Ḥannā (Teacher); ʻAwdah, ʻAbdallāh (Teacher); Ḥūrānī, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥabīb, Karam (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Bāqī, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Ḥijāzī, Fakhr (Teacher); Bustānī, Bashīr (Teacher).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Saint Luke's School (School).

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Keywords: British colonialism; Children's games; Farmers; Fathers; Laborers; Land ownership; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Socio-economic conditions; Tarshīḥā (Palestine)

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Keywords: Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; British officers; British police forces; Death; Explosions; Income; Jewish immigration; Jews; Military training; Tel Aviv (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Terrorism

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shurayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Shukrī (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad (Mayor), Sirḥān, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Mayor); Ᾱghā, Taqīy al-Dīn Aḥmad (Mayor).

Families: al-Ḥammulah; al-Khayrāt; al-Fallāḥīn; Abū Anṭūn; al-Qiblāwī.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Mujāhid (Maqām); al-Nabī Yahyá (Maqām); Jablat ʻAlī Abū Saʻd (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Ḥammūlah (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural products; British-Jewish relations; Churches; Dwellings; Economic prosperity; Family relations; Farmers; Haifa (Palestine); Historic buildings; Historical events; Interreligious relations; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Laborers; Land purchase; Land sale; Military strategy; Municipalities; Neighborhoods; Neighboring villages; Police; Settlement expansion; Social classes; Spring; Taxation; Tobacco trade; Trade; al-Suwayṭāt (Arab tribe)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAwdah, Fāṭimah (Dressmaker); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor).

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Keywords: Agricultural prosperity; Arab Salvation Army; Arbitration; Bridal customs; Coffeehouses; Education; Entertainment; European Jewish Immigration; Food; Hospitality; Interreligious marriage; Interreligious relations; Intervillage relations; Medical care; Medical doctors; Newspapers; Radio stations; Wedding presents; ʻĪd celebrations

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fuʼād, ʻUthmān (Revolutionary leader); al-Rashīd, Fawzī (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: British colonialism; Brutal treatment; Identity cards; Imprisonment; Jewish immigration; Jewish settlements; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Political activity; Road blocks; Shootings; Strikes; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Unemployment; Weapon acquisition; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ᾱghā, Muḥammad Kamāl (Resistance leader); Jadīd, Fuʼād (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Yannī, Yannī (Mayor); Laḥḥūd, Ḥannā (Resistance fighter); Ghabghad, Naʻīm (Minister); ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Rafīq, Naẓmī (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Armored vehicles; Bombings; British army camps; Conspiracy; Damaged weapons; Death; Deception; Druzes; Farmers; Jews; Jordanian Army; Kafr Yāsīf (Palestine); Killing; Military strategy; Military withdrawal; Mines; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Unemployment; Village leaders; Weapon acquisition; al-Birwah Battle, 1948; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Shajarah Battle, 1948; al-Ḥizb al-Sūrī al-Qawmī al-Ijtimāʻī; helpfulness

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Sibāʻī, Sabiʻ (Resistance fighter); Ᾱghā, Muḥmmad Kamāl (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Collaborationists; Demolition; Displacement; Emotions; House raid; Laborers; Lebanon; Military strategy; Military withdrawal; Mothers; Palestinian national identity; Passing on memories; Prisoners of war; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Return; Routes; Shootings; Socio-economic conditions; Treason; Unfulfilled promises