Interview with Marie Shammās مقابلة مع ماري شماس

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

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Diāb, Salīm ʻAṭallāh (School principal); Khūrī, Saʻdah (Teacher).

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Keywords: Acting; Arab nationalism; Arbitration; Boarding schools; British colonialism; Childhood; Children's games; Churches; Coffeehouses; Dwellings; Education; Family structure; Farmers; Folk songs; Germans; House keys; Interreligious relations; Latin churches; Living conditions; Peasant workers; Population; Revolutionaries; Schools; Siblings; Students; Tobacco industry; Women education; al-Baṣṣah (Palestine)

00:13:42 - Social life in al-Baṣṣah

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Khūrī; Khalīl; Shammās; al-Bannā.

Significant Figures: al-Khūrī, Salīm (Mayor); Ballūṭ, ‘Aql (Barber).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Boarding schools; Buses; Coexistance; Coffeehouses; Currencies; Dietary practices; Disputes; Education; Elections; Engagement; Entertainment; Farm animals; Interreligious marriage; Intervillage relations; Land partition; Land sale; Medical doctors; Municipalities; Neighboring villages; Neighbors; Proverbs; Social norms; Sūq; Traditional medical procedures; Wedding customs; Women education; ʻĪd celebrations

00:31:17 - al-Baṣṣah during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḍāhir, Yūsuf Yunān (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Barbed wire; Border cities and towns; British Army, Royal Engineers; British colonialism; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Damaged weapons; House raid; Imports; Jewish settlements; Kibbutzim; Murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Police; Revolutionaries; Shootings; Smuggling; Terrorism; Torture; Tyre (Lebanon); Women in armed conflicts; Ḥanūtah (Palestine)

00:43:15 - Zionist infiltration and political turmoil

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Bannā.

Significant Figures: al-Jubrān, Tawfīq (Mayor).

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Keywords: Battles; British-Jewish relations; Damaged weapons; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Expulsion from Palestine; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Municipalities; Newspapers; Palestine Broadcasting Service; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Protests against settlements; Resistance movements; Rifles; Shootings; Terrorism; al-Baṣṣah (Palestine)

00:52:33 - Expulsion from al-Baṣṣah

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Khūrī; Būlus; al-Shammās.

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Keywords: Bible; Burial; Coffeehouses; Destruction; Dwellings; Economic prosperity; Employment; Gunshots; Homeland; House keys; Israeli occupation; Latin churches; Naturalization; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Pre-Nakba life; Refugee legal status; Return; Right of return; Schools; Suffering; Tobacco industry; Tyre (Lebanon); United Nations; Village geography; Water resources; Zionist colonization; Zionist lobby