Interview with Qāsim al-Sayyid مقابلة مع قاسم السيّد

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood during the Arab revolt 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Mughrabī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Khalīfah, Muṣbāḥ (Teacher); Yaʻqūb, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); Ghunaym, ʻᾹrif (Revolutionary); Ghunaym, Nāyif (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Yāsīn, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Ḥilmī Bakrī, Aḥmad (Prisoner); Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Prisoner).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat Safad (School).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Arrest; Attack; British colonialism; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Children's games; Education; Employment; Escape; Executions; Jews; Landowners; Police investigations; Qurʼānic teaching; Siblings; Strikes; Torture; Weapons; ʻAyn Ghazāl (Palestine)

00:17:55 - Employment and battles , 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Sayyid, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Qāsim al-Sayyid, ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); al-Aṣbaḥ, ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary);Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Khaṭṭāb, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-Nābulsī, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Ghunaym, ʻᾹrif (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Yāsīn, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Shāʻir, Rashīd (Revolutionary); al-Khalīl Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt 1936-1939; Arrest; British officers; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Children; Collaborationists; Crime; Druzes; Escape; Income; Mayors; Murder; Muslims; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Police; Revenge; Safad (Palestine); Strikes; Village beseigment; Wādī al-Ṭawāḥīn (Palestine); ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine)

00:41:45 - British colonialist policies towrads the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Khalīl Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: British colonialism; British officers; Burial; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Crime; Employment; Escape; Home demolition; House raid; Injuries; Landowners; Population; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Shootings; Tanks; Zionist occupation

00:51:26 - Cultural life and Zionist invasion of Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Families: Ṣawwān; Shaʻbān; al-Ibrāhīm; al-Sayyid; ʻAṣqūl.

Significant Figures: Tāhā, ʻUmar (Resistance fighter); Shaʻbān, Yūsuf (Martyr).

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Keywords: British officers; British-Jewish relations; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Customs and traditions; Employment; Expulsion; Food; Guards; Hospitality; Injuries; Intervillage relations; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlements; Landowners; Murder; Neighboring villages; Newspapers; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Radio stations; Revolutions; Safad (Palestine); Settler colonialism; Village siege; Weapons; Wedding presents; World War, 1939-1945; Zionist occupation; al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Palestine)

01:16:06 - Expulsion from Palestine in 1948

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shaʻbān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Shibʻānī, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Bīrīyā (Palestine); Collaboration; Jewish settlements; Murder; Refugee experience; Return; Routes; Safad (Palestine); Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine)