Interview with Aḥmad Qāsim al-Ḥāj مقابلة مع أحمد قاسم الحاج

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Raslān, Maḥmūd (Police); al-Yāsīn, Mufliḥ (Police).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British-Jewish relations; Carpenters; Disputes; Education; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Kawkab Abū al-Hayjāʼ (Palestine); Land ownership; Military training; Murder; Officers; Peasants; Schools; Shaykhs; Siblings; Students; Topography; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Women education; al-ʻAlamayn Battle, 1942

Partial Transcript: Families: Abū al-Hayjāʼ; al-Ḥāj.

Significant Figures: al-Ḥusayn, Tawfīq (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Martyr); al-Ḥammād, Ṣabrī (Martyr); Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Martyr).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Hayjāʼ (Maqām); Rijāl al-Arbaʻīn (Maqām); al-Shyakh Ḥassān (Maqām); al-Shaykh ʻUthmān (Maqām); al-Shaykh Saʻīd (Maqām).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Arrest; Blindness; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building practices; Burial; Caves; Disputes; Dwellings; House burning; Intervillage relations; Kawkab Abū al-Hayjāʼ (Palestine); Murder; Population; Prayers for rain; Religious belief; Religious ceremonies; Revolutionaries; Sacrifice; Shaykhs; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Weapons; Women in armed conflicts

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Sālim, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); ʻAbd al-ʻAwaḍ, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū al-ʻAadas, Maḥmūd (Martyr); ʻAbd al-ʻAwaḍ, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Mūsá, Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Qādir (Resistance fighter); ʻIzzat, Mūsá (Resistance fighter); Ghazāl, Qāsim (Resistance fighter); Ghazāl, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Yūsuf, Rajā (Mayor); al-Salīm, Sulaymān (Mayor).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Attack; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Germany; House burning; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Military superiority; Mortars; Murder; Neighboring villages; Newspapers; Radio stations; Resistance movements; Revolutionary leadership; Settler colonialism; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Skirmishes; Summer; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Weapon smuggling; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938; al-Ḥusaynī, Mūsá Kāẓim, 1853-1954

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥazbūnī, Maḥmūd (Prisoner); al-Shāmī, Akram (Prisoner).

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Keywords: Attempt at return; Brutal treatment; Courts; Currencies; Dignity; Displacement; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Fidā’iyyīn; Forced evacuation; Homeland; Hope; Imprisonment; Mayors; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Personal belongings; Refugees; Return; Routes; Weapon smuggling; Zionist occupation; al-Ḥusaynī, Jamāl, 1893-1982