Interview with Labībah ‘Uthmān مقابلة مع لبيبة عثمان

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

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Manṣūr, Ḥamdah (Teacher); al-ʻUthmān, Raʼūfah (Teacher).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Children's games; Family structure; Nuns; Public schools; Siblings; Village siege; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

00:07:44 - Everyday life in Ṣaffurīyah

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Partial Transcript: Families: Mawʻid; Najm; Ḥadāydah; al-Saʻdīyah; Abū Nʻāj; al-Khaṭātibah; al-Zaghāyrī; al-Ghanāymah.

Significant Figures: al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Landowner); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Village leader).

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

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Agricultural products; Antiquities; Arbitration; Beliefs; Camels; Churches; Dwellings; Farmers; Horses; Irrigation; Land deeds; Land ownership; Landowners; Mosques; Neighborhoods; Neighboring villages; Nuns; Olive oil mills; Peasant workers; Police; Police stations; Prayers for rain; Professions; Revolutionaries; Social classes; Sūq; Trade; Water resources

00:26:35 - Socio-economic dynamics in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-ʻUthmān, Ṣāliḥ (Poet); Maṣrī, ʻUmar (Doctor); al-Ḥusayn, Yūsuf (Doctor); ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Antiquities; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Custody; Dairy products; Dalʻūnā; Dietary practices; Education; Exile; Handicrafts; Jewish immigrants; Mourning; Neighboring villages; Nuns; Olive trees; Swings of ʻĪd; Topography; Traditional medicinal products; Village siege; Wedding customs; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

00:41:45 - Ṣaffurīyah during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); Ṭāhir, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary); al-Naṣr, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary); Abū Faraj, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Abū Khurj, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); ʻUthmān, Muṣṭafá al-ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Krayyim, Ṣubḥī (Martyr); al-Ghuzz, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).

Families: Qaramān, Sursuq.

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Keywords: British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; Collaborationists; Curfew; Executions; House raid; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Lawyers; Murder; Nazareth (Palestine); Prisoners' treatment; Shootings; Torture; Village siege; Women in armed conflicts

00:50:32 - Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ghalbān, Ṭālib (Resistance fighter); Abū Shiḥādah, Salīm (Resistance fighter); al-Ṭāhir, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Azzām, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Akka Battle, 1948; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; Beggars; British-Jewish relations; Burial; Collaborationists; Displacement; Explosions; Expulsion from Palestine; Governors; Machination; Mass murder; Massacres; Military superiority; Mines; Nahariya (Palestine); Resistance movements; Village occupation; War crimes; Weapons; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist colonization; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

01:08:10 - Revisiting Palestine

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Keywords: Animosity; Antiquities; Atrocities of war; Burial; Dietary practices; Disappeared persons; Dispersion; Displacement; Documents; Dwellings; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Identity cards; Injuries; Israeli checkpoints; Israeli occupation; Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990; Martyrs; Mourning; Murder; Poems; Remapping; Routes; Settler colonialism; Songs; Suffering; Ḥizb al-Katā’ib al-Lubnānīyah