Interview with Ramzīyah Muḥammad al-Ḥāj مقابلة مع رمزية محمد الحاج

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ashqar, ʻAbd Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arbitration; Dabkah; Dairy products; Dietary practices; Dīwān; Education; Eldest child; Farm animals; Farmers; Folk dance; Horseback riding; Hospitality; Jafrā; Means of transportation; Mourning; Olive trees; Peasant workers; Rural life; Schools; Shepherds; Siblings; Tobacco trade; Wedding customs; Wedding presents; Wedding songs; al-Sammūʻī (Palestine); Ẓarīf al-Ṭūl

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ashqar, Muḥammad al-Ibrāhim (Landowner); Ashqar, ʻAbd Ṣāliḥ (Landowner); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Ṭāhā (Landowner); Dīb, ʻUthmān (Landowner); Ashqar, ʻAbd Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).

Families: al-Ḥāj; Ashqar.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Muḥammad al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Building practices; Charcoal; Cultivation; Dietary practices; Dwellings; Entertainment; Farm animals; Flour mills; Graveyards; Haifa (Palestine); Harvesting; Intervillage relations; Irrigation; Jewish immigrants; Landowners; Mosques; Mīrūn (Palestine); Neighboring villages; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Religious ceremonies; Return; Rural life; Self-sufficiency; Social classes; Socio-economic conditions; Spring; Threshing; Trade; Water resources; Work songs

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ashqar, Riḍā (Martyr); Salīm, ʻAlī Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Muḥammad, Aḥmad (Martyr); Qaddūrah, Turkī (Martyr).

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

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kanaʻān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Atrocities of war; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Childbirth; Collaborationists; Crimes against humanity; Displacement; Druzes; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Harvesting; Home bombing; Home demolition; Hunger; Israeli checkpoints; Mass murder; Media; Military superiority; Palestinian Jews; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Routes; Seeking shelter; Skirmishes; Suffering; Survival; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Water resources; Weapons confiscation; Zionist occupation; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

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Keywords: Caves; Childbirth; Compensation; Deception; Dreams; Fleas; Floods; Homeland; Israeli checkpoints; Living conditions; Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Nostalgia; Passing on memories; Quarries and quarrying; Refugee aid; Refugee camp conditions; Refugee experience; Right of return; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Urban planning; Women socio-economic role; al-Sammūʻī (Palestine)