Interview with Muṭlaq Nāyif Maḥmūd مقابلة مع مطلق نايف محمود

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Early life in al-Farrādīyah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Naḥawī, Ṣalāḥ (Teacher); Kutmittū, ʻUthmān (Teacher); Kamāl, Nihād (Teacher).

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Keywords: Aid; Aid distribution; Arab Salvation Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British high commissioner; Children's games; Coeducation; Dispersion; Disputes; Education; Family relations; Farmers; Government officials; Income; Land appropriation; Murder; Population; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Students; al-Farrāḍīyah (Palestine)

00:11:53 - Community life in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Mashāyikh.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nabiʻ al-Farrāḍīyah (Water resource).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Animosity; Arbitration; Converts; Courts; Crops; Dispute; Dīwān; Family relations; Hospitality; Imprisonment; Interreligious marriage; Intervillage relations; Irrigation; Poets; Social norms; Socio-economic conditions; Trade; Water resources; Wedding celebration

00:25:07 - Political conditions during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); Saʻd, Fuʼād (Landowner); Ḥijāzī, Yūsuf (Martyr); Shāhīn, Ḥusayn ʻAlī (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British colonialism; Building practices; Collaborationists; Complaints; Confiscation; Disputes; Farmers; Greed; Gunshots; Jaffa riots, 1929; Jewish neighbors; Mayors; Means of transportation; Murder; Population; Revolutionaries; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Taxation; Values; Vandalism; Village siege; Water resources; Water resources; Weapon trade

00:42:41 - Military occupation and the expulsion

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Betrayal; British Army; British-Jewish relations; Expulsion from Palestine; Haganah; Jewish settlements; Kafr ʻAnān (Palestine); Land sale; Massacres; Media; Military superiority; Safad (Palestine); Settler colonialism; Theft; Trenches; Weapons; Zionist occupation; al-Birwah Battle, 1948

00:50:57 - Expulsion from al-Farrādīyah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻUṭūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); ʻIjāl, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Mī‘āri, Nūkhah (Wounded); Muḥyī al-Dīn, Naʻīm (Wounded).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Atrocities of war; Childbirth; Clothing and dresses; Dispersion; Expulsion from Palestine; Farrāḍīyah Massacre, 1948; Forced migration; Home bombing; House burning; Injuries; Machination; Mass graves; Mass murder; Massacres; Mayrūn (Palestine); Mothers; Murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Personal belongings; Psychological warfare; Routes; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Shootings; Village siege; Violation of humanitarian law; War crimes; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:03:55 - Refugee life in Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣafaḍī, Aḥmad (Martyr).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Sāḥil (Hospital).

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Keywords: Arab countries; Farm animals; Generosity; House rent; Land sale; Murder; Naturalization refusal; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Refugee legal status; Return; Routes; Thieves; Trade; Unemployment; Violation of humanitarian law; Vows; War crimes; Work; al-Hayb (Arab tribe); al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975