Interview with ‘Abd al-Majīd Muḥammad Zaydānī مقابلة مع عبد المجيد محمد زيداني

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shaʻbān, Nāyif (Teacher); al-Ṭāhir, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); al-Ṭayyār, Najīb (Teacher).

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Agricultural machinery; Agricultural products; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Compulsory education; Dwellings; Farmers; Farming practices; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Peasant workers; Public schools; Return; Siblings; Telephone; Traders; al-Dāmūn (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Families: Zaydānī; al-Biqāʻī; Sursuq; Salām; al-Qūwwatlī.

Significant Figures: Salāmah, Ḥasan (Revolutionary leader); Muhāwish, Yāsīn (Revolutionary leader); al-ʻUmar, ʻAlī (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbitration; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Collaborationists; Discriminatory measures; Executions; Identity cards; Intervillage relations; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Land brokers; Land sale; Population; Ummah; Village leaders; a-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; al-Dāmūn (Palestine); ʻAkkā (Prison: Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Fāhūm.

Significant Figures: Zawātah, ʻAlī (Public officer); al-Mukhtār, ʻAlī (Prisoner); al-ʻUmar, ʻAlī (Prisoner); al-ʻUmar, Muḥammad (Prisoner).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Building stones; Buses; Collaborationists; Confiscation; Demolition; Dispersion; Displacement; Elderly people; Executions; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; Fleas; Forced labor; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Home demolition; Injuries; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Iraqi Army; Jewish settlements; Martyrs; Mayors; Medical aid; Military superiority; Priests; Prisoner exchange; Prisoners of war; Prisoners' treatment; Refugee experience; Village liberation; Village siege; Violation of humanitarian law; Weapons confiscation; al-Birwah Battle, 1948

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Keywords: Atrocities of war; Clashes; Collaborationists; Displacement; Dwellings; Economic aid; Expulsion from Palestine; Food; Home demolition; Irrigation; Jews; Kafr ʻAnān (Palestine); Lebanese Army; Mass murder; Mayors; Military agreements; Military superiority; Murder; Nazareth (Palestine); News; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Routes; Social relations; Village siege; War crimes; Water resources

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Keywords: Arab countries; Border crossing; Compensation; Emotions; Family reunification; Family structure; Generations; Homeland; Hope; Landowners; Liberation; Nakba; Return; Sacred places; United States; Vows; al-Dāmūn (Palestine); Ḥizb al-Katā’ib al-Lubnānīyah