Interview with ‘Abd al-Majīd Krayyim مقابلة مع عبد المجيد كريّم

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

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Partial Transcript: Families: Krayyim.

Significant Figures: Krayyim, Aḥmad (School principal); al-Yaḥyá, ʻAbd al-Razzāq (Arab Salvation Army commander);al-Amīn, Bahjat Najāt (Arab Salvation Army soldier).

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Keywords: Farmers; Orphans; Siblings; Students; al-Ṭīrah, Haifa (Palestine); Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

00:06:35 - Employment in the British army

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Bombings; Border guards; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Guards; Jordanian Army; Military training; Police; Tanks; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Unemployment; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

00:25:09 - Cultural and social life

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Abū Laylá, Ḥasan (Shaykh); ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Cheese maker) al-Ṭāhā, Mifliḥ Amīn (Village leader); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm al-Muḥammad (Village leader).

Families: Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; al-ʻAfīfī; Muʻīd.

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Antiquities; Arbitration; Childhood; Convents; Disputes; Dwellings; Dīwān; Economic sectors; Farmers; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Generosity; Haifa (Palestine); Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Landowners; Means of transportation; Medical aid; Nazareth (Palestine); Neighborhoods; Olive trees; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Professions; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Spring; Sūq; Traditional medical procedures; Ululation; Water wells; Wedding traditions; Women education; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

00:53:53 - Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Sulaymān (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj, Saʻīd (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj, Salīm (Municipal council); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Yāsīn, Muṣliḥ (Resistance leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Border guard); Abū al-Niʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader).

Families: al-ʻAfīfī.

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; Battles; Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); Border cities and towns; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Clashes; Clothing and dresses; Dayr al-Qāsī (Palestine); Death; Defense; Displacement; Expulsion; Hawshah (Palestine); Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Jewish settlements; Khirbat al-Kasāyir (Palestine); Mayors; Military strategy; Military training; Military withdrawal; Municipalities; Neighbors; Political parties; Reunions; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Village siege; Weapons; Zionist occupation; al-Shajarah Battle, 1948; Ḥaṭṭah; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

01:22:18 - Palestinian resistance for survival

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Broker).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Battles; Cities and towns; Collaborationists; Dayr al-Qāsī (Palestine); Death; Defense; Emotions; Executions; Expulsion; Iraqi Army; Land partition; Massacres; Military strategy; Military withdrawal; Mishmar HaEmek Battle, 1948; Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah; Nazareth (Palestine); Pamphlets; Propaganda; Psychological warfare; Ramaḍān; Syria; Weapon acquisition; Weapon trade; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

01:45:08 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); British Consulate; Certificates; Death; Demolition; Massacres; Military training; Palestinian national identity; Passing on memories; Refugee camps; Right of return; Syria; Weapons confiscation; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)