Interview with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Abū ‘Adas مقابلة مع أحمد عبد الرحمن أبو عدس

Partial Transcript: Families: Sursuq.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Mujaydil (School).

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Keywords: Arabic proverbs; Childhood memories; Children's games; Children's songs; Education; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Mourning; Nuns; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Poems; Public schools; Teachers; Women education; al-Mujaydil (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Ramat David (Airport).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Shell (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).

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Keywords: Armed patrols; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; Child labour; Guards; Haifa (Palestine); Income; Laborers; Languages; Palestine Railways; Palestinian Jews; Police; Professions; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; World War, 1939-1945

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū ʻAdas, Maḥmūd (Prisoner); Sūṭarī, Muḥammad (Prisoner).

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Keywords: Akkā (Prison: Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Assassination; British army camps; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Dogs; Guards; Haifa (Palestine); Home bombing; Imprisonment; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Jewish immigrants; Means of transportation; Protests against settlements; Revolutionaries; Ships; Strikes; Tracing; Weapon acquisition; al-Mujaydil (Palestine); Ḥaṭṭah; Ṭarbūsh

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Lawābinah; Abū Khamīs; Wākid; Maṣāl; Sūṭarī; al-Khūrī; al-Buṭruṣ; Ṣalībā.

Significant Figures: Sulaymān, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-Ghāzī, Muṭlaq Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Aḥmad, Tawfīq (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural prosperity; Arranged marriage; Building practices; Christians; Churches; Coexistence; Dabkah; Dowry; Dwellings; Khirbat al-Karmil (Palestine); Landowners; Mosques; Murder; Muḥammad ʻAlī Bāshā, Governor of Egypt, 1769-1849; Mījānā; Poems; Religious belief; Wedding celebration; Wedding customs; al-Mujaydil (Palestine); ʻAtābā

Partial Transcript: Families: Sursuq; Abū Dāwūd.

Significant Figures: Kassāb, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Martyr); ʻĪsá, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sulaymān, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Armed resistance; Attack; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Bombardment; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Checkpoints; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Jewish immigration; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Military strategy; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police stations; Property destruction; Protests against settlements; Routes; Settler colonialism; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Hayʼah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Badīʻ, Muḥammad (Martyr); Sulaymān, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Martyr); Abū ʻAzārah, Nāyif (Martyr); Samārah, Yūsuf (Martyr); Dabbūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-ʻAbd, Dīb Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Mbadā, Yūsuf (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Border crossing; Collaborationists; Demolition; Dispersion; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Forced migration; Imprisonment; Investigation; Israeli Army (IDF); Jordanian Government; Mass murder; Nazareth (Palestine); Permits; Prisoners' treatment; Refugee camps; Return; Routes; Rumors; Seeking shelter; Suffering; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Mujaydil (Palestine)

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Keywords: Arrest; Collaborationists; Expulsion from Palestine; Generations; Israeli colonization; Israeli occupation; Murder; Naturalization refusal; Pain; Passing on memories; Return; Suffering; Terrorism