Interview with Aḥmad Qāsim ‘Ubayd مقابلة مع أحمد قاسم عبيد

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:06 - Childhood memories

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Qādirī, ʻAlī (Shaykh); al-Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher); Shanāʻah, Naʻīm (Teacher).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Ṣafṣāf (Mosque).

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Keywords: Accommodation; Akka (Palestine); Bakeries; British colonialism; Child labour; Children's games; Competitiveness; Disputes; Dwellings; Education; Employment; Farm animals; Fathers; Grooms; Historic buildings; Horseback riding; Means of transportation; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Qurʼānic teaching; Rural life; Schools; Scout; Socio-economic conditions; Sports; Storytelling; Sūq; Theft; Trade; Wedding traditions; Women in agriculture; Ṣafṣāf (Palestine)

00:20:35 - al-Ṣafṣāf massacre and battles, 1948

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Atāsī, Jawdat (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, ʻAlī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Nāṣirī, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh al-Muḥammad (Prisoner); al-Zaghmūṭ, Aḥmad ʻAwaḍ (Prisoner); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad (Prisoner); al-Zaghmūṭ, Fāris (Prisoner); Yūnus, Dīb (Martyr); Yūnus, Ṣāliḥ (Marytr); Ḥamad, Abū Khalaf (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Armored vehicles; Bombardment; Dispersion; Displacement; Education; Farming practices; Fathers; Harvesting time; Hunger; Mass graves; Military strategy; Mortars; Safad (Palestine); Sexual crimes; War crimes; Weapons; Zionism; Zionist occupation; al-Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948

00:46:05 - Killings and massacres in Palestine during the 1948 invasion

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Zaghmūṭ, Abū Maʻin (Martyr); al-Maḥmūd, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Nāṣir, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Zaghmūt, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ Abū Ṭāhā (Martyr); Yūnus, ‘Abd (Wounded); Yūnus, Jabr (Wounded).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Antiquities; Armed patrols; Building practices; Children in armed conflicts; Collaborationists; Dispersion; Druzes; Ethnic cleansing; Expulsion from Palestine; Hunger; Injuries; Mass graves; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Resistance movements; Theft; Violation of humanitarian law; War crimes; Water resources; Zionist occupation; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

01:03:10 - Topography of al-Ṣafṣāf

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Zaghmūṭ; al-Aḥmad; al-Qāsim; Ḥassūn; ʻUbayd; Ḥamad; Zaydān; Farhūd; Yūnus; Ṣalḥah; Saʻdah; al-Bayk; al-Qādirī; Khaldān; Ṭāfish; Shraydī; al-Kurdīyah; Jūkh.

Significant Figures: Shuraydī, Ṭāhā (Mayor); al-Zaghmūt, ʻAbdullāh Khālid (Mayor).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Ṣafṣāf (School).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Jūrat al-Shaykh ʻAbdullāh (Cemetery).

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Keywords: Dwellings; Farm animals; Mosques; Neighborhoods; Olive oil mills; Olive trees; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Spring; Water resources

01:16:39 - Expulsion from al-Ṣafṣāf

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Keywords: Cowardice; Dispersion; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; Homeland; Newly weds; Routes; Seeking refuge; Shootings; Suffering; Zionist occupation