Interview with ‘Abdullāh Ḥamādah ‘Abbās مقابلة مع عبدالله حمادة عباس

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Saʻīd, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Salām, Sāmī (Teacher).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Aḥmadīyah (School).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Akka (Prison: Palestine); Arab Salvation Army; Boarding schools; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Children's games; Education; Folk songs; Holidays; Hunting; Jewish gangs; Naḥf (Palestine); Poetry; Police; Population; Religious schooling; Seas; Siblings; Skirmishes; Social norms; Students; Weapon acquisition; Women education; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

Partial Transcript: Families: ʻAbbās; ʻAbd al-Ghanī; Maṭar; Ḥusayn; Sirḥān; al-Shaykh; Ayyūb.

Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-Ghanī, Aḥmad al-‘Abdullāh (Village leader).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Agricultural products; Arbitration; Blood money; Coexistence; Currency convertibility; Economic measures; Income; Interreligious marriage; Jaffa oranges; Landowners; Means of transportation; Neighboring villages; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Peasants; Professions; Socio-economic conditions; Trade; Village geography; World War, 1914-1918

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sirḥān, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Jalīl (Mountain).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Attempt at return; British colonialism; Collaboration; Discriminatory measures; Forced migration; Murder; Naḥf (Palestine); State of Israel; Village siege; Violation of humanitarian law; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, Dāwūd (Musician); al-Ṭayyārah, Aḥmad (Musician); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Arab countries; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British colonialism; Dabkah; Death; Dowry; Herbal remedies; Hospitality; Income; Invitations; Jewish settlements; Medical care; Medical doctors; Midwives; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Poets; Pre-Nakba life; Protests against settlements; Quarries and quarrying; Socio-economic conditions; Songs; Wedding customs

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Muṣṭafá, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Akka (Palestine); Arab Salvation Army; British-Jewish relations; Jewish gangs; Jewish immigrants; Land sale; Mass murder; Massacres; Military withdrawal; Prisons; Psychological warfare; Resistance movements; Riots; Tel Aviv (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Terrorism; Treason; Village liberation; Weapon acquisition

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Fāʻūr, Aḥmad (Prisoner); al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Prisoner); ʻAbd al-Jalīl, Aḥmad (Martyr).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Jalīl (Mountain).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Arrest; Caves; Collaborationists; Dispersion; Displacement; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Forced labor; Forced migration; Hope; Identity cards; Israeli occupation; Military courts; Naturalization refusal; Palestinian Jews; Passing on memories; Prisoners' treatment; Psychological warfare; Refugee experience; Refugee legal status; Return; Shaṭṭah (Prison: Palestine); Smuggling; Terrorism; Work