Interview with Anīs ʻAbdullāh Sāyigh مقابلة مع أنيس عبدالله صايغ

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Family origin and childhood memories

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Bishop Gobat School (School).

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Keywords: Boycott; Childhood dreams; Coexistance; Conduct of life; Dwellings; Education; Interreligious marriage; Jewish immigrants; Jewish neighbors; Landscapes; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Parents; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Priests; Public schools; Religious traditions; Sabbath; Siblings; Teachers; Tiberias (Palestine); World War, 1914-1918; Youngest child; Zionism; al-Muntadá (Magazine)

00:16:03 - Education in Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣayfī, Ṭalʻat (School principal); Wihbī, Tawfīq (Teacher); Najm, Muḥammad Yūsuf (Writer).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Ṭāʼifah (Hospital); Bishop Gobat School (School).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School); al-Kullīyah al-ʻArabīyah (School).

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Keywords: British colonialism; Christians; Clothing and dresses; Competitiveness; Education; Exile; Health conditions; Jerusalem (Palestine); Nationalism; Patriotism; Priests; Protestants; Public schools; Teachers; Tiberias (Palestine); Weather; Women education; Zionism

00:33:27 - Community and social classes of the city

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣayfī, Ṭalʻat (School principal).

Families: al-Ṭabarī; al-Khūrī.

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Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; Churches; Coexistence; Dwellings; Economic prosperity; Feudalism; Fishing; Foreigners; Gardens; Holidays; Hospitals; Interreligious marriage; Interreligious relations; Jewish neighbors; Medical doctors; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Priests; Public baths; Sephardim Jews; Snakes; Social classes; Social relations; Zionism

00:45:53 - Zionist movement in Palestine

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Keywords: Aggression; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; Ashkenazi Jews; Boycott; British army camps; British-Jewish relations; Conspiracy; Haganah; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Kibbutzim; Nazism; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Ports; Radio stations; Strikes; Terrorism; Tiberias (Palestine); Weapon smuggling; Wingate, Orde Charles, 1903-1944; Zionism; Zionists; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

00:56:01 - History of Tiberias

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Sayyida Sukayna (Maqām).

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Keywords: Antiquities; Churches; Graveyards; Historical events; Jerusalem (Palestine); Jesus Christ; Judaisation; Land partition; Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204; Religious belief; Synagogues; Talmud; Torah

01:03:46 - Military occupation and exile

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Hawwārī, Muḥammad Nimir (Leader); Ṣāyigh, Yūsuf (Resistance leader).

Families: al-Ṭabarī; al-Ḥāj Ismāʻīl; al-Khaṭṭābīn.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Captivity; Conspiracy; Damaged weapons; Dispersion; Economic conditions; Expulsion from Palestine; Forced migration; Haganah; Hope; Israel-Arab War, 1967; Jewish national home; Jordan; Machination; Military training; Munaẓẓamat al-Futūwwah; Negotiations; Nostalgia; Priests; Right of return; Scouts; Socio-economic conditions; Tiberias (Palestine); Truces; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist propaganda; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ḥizb al-Najjādah