Interview with Kāmil Bishārah Qusṭandī مقابلة مع كامل بشارة قسطندي

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

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Partial Transcript: Families: Barakāt; al-Sharīf.

Significant Figures: Dīb, Kāmil (School principal).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Cliff Hotel (Hotel); Schneller (School); Orthodox school (School); Freres School (School); Bishop Gobat School (School).

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Keywords: Childhood; Church Mission Society (Organization); Coexistence; Dietary practices; Education; Football; Governors; Health conditions; Interpersonal relations; Jaffa (Palestine); Jerusalem (Palestine); Neighboring villages; Neighbors; Palestinian diaspora; Ramaḍān; Songs; Students; Teachers; Women education

00:16:37 - Cultural life in Palestine before Nakba

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥūt, Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Rabīʻ, Diāb (Poet); al-Baḥrī, Yūnus (Presenter)); al-Ghuṣayn, Muḥammad (Technician); al-Sharīf, Ṣabrī (Technician); al-Sharīf, Samīḥ (Accountant); Jarrār, Aḥmad ( School principal); Dawūd, Sāmī (Presenter); Yūsuf, ʻAbd al-Wahāb (Presenter); Yūsuf, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Presenter).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Continental Hotel (Hotel).

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Keywords: Aṭrash, Farīd, 1915-1974; Berlin radio Arabic service; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Education; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945; Idhāʻat al-Sharq al-Adná; Income; Jaffa (Palestine); Jenin (Palestine); Jerusalem (Palestine); Khamīsī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1920-1987; Malāʼikah, Nāzik, 1923-2007; News reporting; Nuwayhiḍ, ʻAjāj; Palestine Broadcasting Service; Propaganda; Socio-economic conditions; Zahāwī, Jamīl Ṣidqī; Ziadeh, Nicola A, 1907-2006; al-Idhāʻah al-Miṣriyyah; al-Rūmī,Ḥalīm, 1919-1983; ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, Muḥammad, 1902-1991; Ṭūqān, Ibrāhīm ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ, 1905-1941

00:41:38 - Military occupation and exile

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Keywords: Boats; Bombardment; British Army; British Government; Cyprus; Dispersion; Dwellings; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; Idhāʻat al-Sharq al-Adná; Israeli colonization; Jaffa (Palestine); Nationalism; Nazism; News; News reporting; Oppression; Refugee experience; Young Men's Christian Association; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

00:54:52 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Būlus, Badīʻ (Businessman).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Freres School (School); Intra Bank (Bank); al-Sharikah al-Lubnānīyah liltasjīlāt al-Fanīyah (Corporation); Sharikat al-Itiḥād al-Fannī (Corporation); Sharikat Studio Baalbek (Corporation).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Rubīn (Maqām).

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Keywords: Boats; Cyprus; Distress; Expulsion from Palestine; Idhāʻat al-Sharq al-Adná; Jaffa (Palestine); Jerusalem (Palestine); Jerusalem Radio; Loved ones; Marriage; Passing on memories; Radio stations; Ramaḍān; Religious ceremonies; ʻAzzām, Samīrah, 1927-

01:08:09 - Refugee life

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Nāsir, Mūsá (Mayor).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Freres School (School); al-Mustashfá al-Faransī (Hospital); Orthodox church (Church).

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Keywords: Arabic patriotic poetry; Cyprus; Family relations; Family reunification; Generations; Hardship; Homeland; Jaffa (Palestine); Jerusalem (Palestine); Jewish immigrants; Loved ones; Majlis al-Kanā’is al-‘Ālamī; Marriage; Palestinian national identity; Refugee camps; Refugee legal status; Refugees; Return; Terrorism; Threats