Interview with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah مقابلة مع محمد أبو رقبة

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Ceremonies and community life in Akka

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Bourguiba, Habib, 1903-2000; Catholic Church; Coexistence; Dietary practices; Dwellings; Education; Family structure; Gardens; Historic buildings; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Neighborly behavior; Palestinian Orthodox Clubs; Pilgrims; Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193; Scouts; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Sports; Zionist occupation; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī; ʻĪd celebrations

00:10:20 - Education and political life

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-ʻĪd, Sāmī (School principal); al-Naḥawī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥassūn, ʻAbdullāh (Teacher); Ṭūqān, Qadrī (Teacher); al-ʻAmad, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Jālī, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Bushnāq, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Tawfīq, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Budayrī, Muṣbāḥ (Resistance fighter); Ḥaddād, ʻUthmān Jaʻfar (Resistance fighter); al-Khālidī, Ḥāzim (Officer); ʻAlī, Mufliḥ (Teacher); al-Hāshim, Ṭāhā (Arab Salvation Army commander).

Families: Ṭūqān; Shaqʻah; Nābulsī.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dayr al-Lātīn (Convent).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Ḥisbat Akka (Market); Qahwat Abū Raqabah (Coffeehouse).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Latin School (School); Kullīyat al-Najāḥ al-Waṭanī (School); al-Madrasah al-Ahlīyah al-Thānawīyah (School).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Arab Salvation Army; Arabic patriotic poetry; Catholic Church; Coexistence; Coffeehouses; Collaborationists; Damascus (Syria); Day care centers; Education; Elections; Guards; Ittiḥād al-Ṭullāb al-ʻArab; Maḥmūd, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1913-1948; Military training; Municipalities; Nablus (Palestine); Nationalism; Palestinian Orthodox Clubs; Partition plan, 1947; Protests; Public schools; Scouts; Sports; Syrian Army; Teachers; Ṭūqān, Fadwá, 1917-2003; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:37:32 - Military occupation and exile

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Salāmah, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ḥnayṭī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Lababīdī, Rafīq (Teacher); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Ṭabarī, Mūsá (Shaykh).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Ambushes; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Arabic patriotic poetry; Boats; Bombardment; British Government; Coexistence; Conspiracy; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Haifa (Palestine); Ittiḥād al-Ṭullāb al-ʻArab; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Jewish settlements; Machination; Military strategy; Military superiority; Mortars; Negotiations; Nādī Usāmah; Palestinian Orthodox Clubs; Partition plan, 1947; Protests against occupation; Psychological warfare; Revolutionary songs; Road blocks; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Weapon acquisition; al-Hay’ah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Nādī al-Qawmī; al-Nādī al-Riyāḍī al-Islāmī; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

00:54:58 - Zionist occupation of Akka, 1948 and imprisonment

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shuqayr, Shawkat (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jarbūʻ, Rashīd (Prisoner); al-ʻAẓm, Hishām (Prisoner).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Battles; Disguise; Employment; Exile; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Homs (Syria); Khaddām, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1932?-; Majallat Filasṭīn (Magazine); Military officials; Military strategy; Military training; Palestinian resistance movements; Prisoners' treatment; Refugee camp conditions; Seeking refuge; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Tall, Waṣfī, 1919-1971; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

01:12:07 - Death of Amīn al-Ḥusaynī and final reflections

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Keywords: Algeria; Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004; Burial; Consolation; Hope; Israeli colonization; Jerusalem (Palestine); Jewish immigrants; Majallat Filasṭīn (Magazine); Right of return; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975