Interview with Faḍil Maḥmūd Shanā‘ah مقابلة مع فضل محمود شناعة

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

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Kūkū.

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Keywords: Accommodation; Agricultural products; Animals; Childhood memories; Children's games; Competitiveness; Education; Entertainment; Farm animals; Historical events; Landowners; Mischief; Peasant workers; Pre-Nakba life; Routes; Rural life; Safad (Palestine); Schools; Shaykhs; Water resources; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine); Ṭayṭabā (Palestine)

00:20:01 - Rural life in Ṭayṭabā

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Shanāʻah; Saʻdah; Rifāʻīyah; Dahshah.

Significant Figures: al-Rifāʻī, ʻAlī (Poet).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: al-Sabʻ Banāt (Graveyard).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Antiquities; Building practices; Dalʻūnā; Dwellings; Folk poetry; Intervillage relations; Jafrā; Jewish immigrants; Jews; Maqām; Marriage proposals; Neighborhoods; Umm al-Zuluf; Work songs

00:35:33 - Expulsion from Palestine to Lebanon

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Boarding schools; Bombings; Displacement; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Expulsion from Palestine; Furniture; Military superiority; Mines; Nostalgia; Safad (Palestine); Skirmishes; Tarshīḥā Battle, 1948; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ṭayṭabā (Palestine)