Interview with Khālid Yūnus Khālid خالد يونس خالد

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

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Dāi'rat al-Aḥrāj (Governmental institution).

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Keywords: Beliefs; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Childhood dreams; Children's games; Dispersion; Education; Employment; Farmers; Government officials; Intervillage relations; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Post offices; Public schools; Return; Shaʻb (Palestine); Siblings; Sports; Students; Teachers; Women education

00:12:46 - Socio-economic dynamics in the village

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Partial Transcript: Families: Khaṭīb; Fā‘ūr; Ḥamzah.

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural land lease; Agricultural products; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building practices; Crops; Dwellings; Government officials; Landowners; Living conditions; Neighboring villages; Olive oil mills; Olive trees; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Post offices

00:18:56 - Community life in the village

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-‘Ulaymī (Maqām); Banāt al-‘Ayn (Maqām).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Beliefs; Building practices; Caves; Churches; Coexistence; Disputes; Farm animals; Graveyards; Historic buildings; Jewish gangs; Journeys; Mayors; Mosques; Municipalities; Police; Rabbis; Scouts; Water resources; Women education

00:26:44 - Ceremonies and celebrations

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arranged marriage; Dabkah; Grooms; Hospitality; Ibrāhīm, Nūḥ, 1913-1938; Invitations; Orchards; Poets; Revolutionaries; Weapons; Wedding celebration; Wedding customs; Zaffah; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī; ʻĪd celebrations

00:33:18 - War time and armed resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥasan (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; Bedouins; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Coexistence; Community support; Defense; Dogs; Harvesting; Home bombing; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Land expropriation; Massacres; Mayors; Mines; Minorities; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Poems; Political parties; Psychological warfare; Resistance movements; Revolutionaries; Road blocks; Terrorism; Tracing; Traders; Village siege; Volunteers; Weapon acquisition; Women in armed conflicts; al-Birwah Battle, 1948; Ḥāmiyat Shaʻb

00:46:34 - Military occupation and the expulsion

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj ‘Abd, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Salīm, Kāyid, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Armūsh, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Rūsān, Ḍayf Allāh (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; British army camps; British high commissioner; Collaborationists; Disguise; Engagement; Expulsion from Palestine; Fleas; Golan (Syria); Guards; Martyrs; Military training; Military withdrawal; Miʻār Battle, 1948; Resistance movements; Snipers; Village occupation; Weapon acquisition; Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ḥāmiyat Shaʻb

01:00:51 - Revisiting Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); al-‘Alī , Kāmil Sayyid (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Maḥmud Muḥammad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Akka (Prison: Palestine); Arab Salvation Army; Attempt at return; Battles; Border crossing; Border guards; Collaborationists; Complaints; Displacement; Druzes; Forced migration; Home bombing; Identity cards; Illness; Interreligious relations; Israeli checkpoints; Letters; Machination; Mass murder; Military officials; Military withdrawal; Poets; Police; Psychological warfare; Return; Seeking refuge; Suffering; Terrorism; Truces; Village siege; Water resources; Weapons confiscation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ḥāmiyat Shaʻb