Interview with Ibrāhīm Aḥmad al-Biqā‘ī مقابلة مع إبراهيم أحمد البقاعي

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Book reviews; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Children's games; Dwellings; Education; Family structure; Farmers; Folktales; Illiteracy; Land ownership; Letters; Mayors; Peasants; Schools

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonialism; French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon, 1923-1943; Jewish neighbors; Shootings; Strikes; United States; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Asadī.

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Keywords: Bīrīyā (Palestine); Dhabīḥah; Hospitality; Invitations; Poets; Social norms; Wedding celebration; Wedding customs; Wedding presents; ʻAtābā

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Bāqī, Muḥammad ʻAbd a-Raḥīm (Revolutionary); Anṭāqyā, Sālim (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Ṣawwān, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Ṣawwān, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Shaʻbān, Yaḥyá (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Barbed wire; British colonialism; House raid; Martyrs; Mines; Revolutionaries; Safad (Palestine); Strikes; Vandalism; Village siege; Weapons; Ḥizb al-Najjādah

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad Khalīl (Martyr); Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Qamalmaz, Iḥsān (Military officer); Shdīd, Ghassān (Military officer).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kanʻān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Ambushes; Boycott; British Army; British White Paper of 1939; Darwazah, Muḥammad ʻIzzat, 1889-1984; Imprisonment; Jewish neighbors; Military training; Munaẓẓamat al-Futūwwah; Munaẓẓamat al-Shabāb; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Safad (Palestine); Weapon trade; Wādī al-Ṭawāḥīn Battle, 1936; a-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; al-Ḥusaynī, Jamāl, 1893-1982; Ḥizb al-Najjādah

Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kanʻān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Ambushes; Arab Salvation Army; Attack; British Army; British-Jewish relations; Defense; Guards; Gunshots; Injuries; Jewish settlements; Killing; Military superiority; Shootings; Skirmishes; Trenches; Weapon acquisition; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Checkpoints; Expulsion from Palestine; Gunshots; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine)