Interview with Fawzī ʻAlī Qiblāwi مقابلة مع فوزي علي قبلاوي

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

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-Hādī, Jamīl (Public officer); Ḥabīb, Karam (Teacher); Qubruṣī, Khalīl (Teacher); Qamar, Ṣāḍiq (School principal).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat Tarshīḥā (School).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Child labour; Childhood dreams; Clothing and dresses; Commerce; Conduct of life; Education; Educational grants; Family structure; Farming practices; Journeys; Land purchase; Landowners; Living conditions; Military withdrawal; Municipalities; Public schools; Rural life; Scout; Siblings; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Trade; Water resources; Women education; Zionist occupation

00:17:53 - Economic conditions during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Jarrāḥ, Abū Khālid (Public offer).

Families: Sursuq; Qaramān; Dīk; Ṣaltī.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Marj bin ‘Āmir (Plain).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Aid distribution; Akka (Palestine); Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; Commerce; Community support; Farm animals; Government officials; Haifa (Palestine); Hospitality; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Imports; Income; Land sale; Landowners; Means of transportation; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Penalties; Poetry; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Taxation; Tobacco industry; Trade; Water resources; Zionist colonization

00:40:15 - Agricultural life in Tarshīḥā

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Sharikat Bāṣāt Tarshīḥā (Corporation).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī al-Qarn (Valley).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural land lease; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Farming practices; Irrigation; Municipalities; Permits; Police; Professions; Schools; Tobacco industry; Trade; Water supplies; Water wells; Women education; Zionist colonization

00:48:42 - Social conditions in Tarshīḥā

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Ḥāmūlah; al-Khayrāt; Qiblāwī; al-Fallāḥīn.

Significant Figures: Ᾱghā, Taqī al-Dīn (Mayor); Qiblāwī, ʻAlī Abū ʻĪsá (Municipality council).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arbitration; Arranged marriage; British colonialism; Churches; Clothing and dresses; Coexistance; Coffeehouses; Conduct of life; Dietary practices; Elections; Elopement; Governors; Hospitality; Income; Interreligious marriage; Invitations; Land brokers; Land sale; Landowners; Mayors; Mosques; Nahariya (Palestine); Nationalism; Peasant workers; Poets; Professions; Social classes; Socio-economic conditions; Terrorism; Village leaders; Wedding celebration; Wedding customs; Wedding presents

01:14:23 - Acquisition of land in Palestine

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Guards; Jewish settlements; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Land sale; Moshavim; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Settler colonialism; Skirmishes

01:19:49 - Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Haydar, Maḥmūd Naṣr (Revolutionary leader); Ᾱghā, Fawzī (Revolutionary leader); Milḥim, Maḥmūd Rashīd (Revolutionary); Shaṭārah, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Ᾱghā, Muḥammad Kamāl Saʻīd (Revolutionary leader); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Armored vehicles; Arrest; British army camps; British colonialism; Collaborationists; Escape; Forced labor; Imprisonment; Investigation; Martyrs; Mayors; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Village leaders; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Weapons confiscation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Kābrī (Palestine)

01:32:24 - Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Ata (Corporation).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Attack; Boycott; British-Jewish relations; Clothing and dresses; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Medical care; Military orders; Military withdrawal; Nahariya (Palestine); Neighboring villages; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Socio-economic conditions; Tarshīḥā Battle, 1948; Zionist occupation; Zionist propaganda

01:40:46 - Expulsion from Tarshīḥā to Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻUmar, Fāyiz (Martyr); Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); ʻAbd al-Hādī, ʻAwnī (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Bombardment; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Diaspora; Exhibitions; Expulsion from Palestine; Home bombing; Homeland; Hunger; Iraqi Army; Land deeds; Legal status; Mass murder; Military aircraft; Military withdrawal; Mortars; Naturalization; Palestinian national identity; Passing on memories; Patriotism; Permits; Personal belongings; Psychological warfare; Radio stations; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Return; Routes; Suffering; Ṭāhā, Sāmī, 1916-1947; Water resources; Zionism; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975