Interview with Ḥusayn al-Mi‘āri مقابلة مع حسين المرعي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Family origin and childhood

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Children's games; Dwellings; Education; Family structure; Farmers; Folk poetry; Land ownership; Means of transportation; Mīʻār (Palestine); Neighboring villages; Peasant workers; Rural life; Safad (Palestine); Schools; Sūq; Weddings; ʻAkbarah (Palestine)

00:09:51 - Social and cultural life

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Mīʻārī; Abū Kayl; Fayyāḍ.

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Keywords: Bedouins; Coffeehouses; Dīwān; Employment; Farm animals; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Health conditions; Herbal remedies; Intervillage relations; Land ownership; Neighboring villages; Safad (Palestine); Wedding celebration; ʻAkbarah (Palestine)

00:21:43 - ʻAkbarah during and the British colonialist policies towrads the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 1936-1939

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Keywords: Arab countries; British colonialism; Brutal treatment; Collaborationists; Home demolition; Mines; Mosques; Revolutionaries; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Hayb (Arab tribe)

00:27:14 - Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Mirʻī, Shiḥādah (Martyr).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Captivity; Collaborationists; Displacement; Home demolition; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Safad (Palestine); Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Shootings; Syrian Army; Truces; Village siege; Weapons; al-Hayb (Arab tribe); al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Ṣafṣāf (Palestine); ʻAkbarah (Palestine); ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine)

00:47:43 - Expulsion from ʻAkbarah

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Death; Deception; Displacement; House rent; Lebanon; Return; Routes; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Farrādīyah (Palestine)

00:56:18 - Final reflections

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Keywords: Arab countries; Collaborationists; Emotions; Honor; Hope; Iraq; Palestinian national identity; Passing on memories