Interview with Sāmī Kamāl al-Fā‘ūr and Naẓmīyah Salīm Muṣṭafá مقابلة مع سامي كمال الفاعور ونظمية مصطفى

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: al-Khayrāt; al-Fallāḥīn; al-Abāninah.

Significant Figures: Ṣubḥ, Muḥammad (School Principal).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat Tarshīḥah (School).

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Keywords: British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Children's games; Coexistence; Educational grants; Fathers; Governors; Intervillage relations; Manners; Population; Qurʼānic teaching; Religious diversity; Shaykhs; Social norms; Students; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Teachers; Telephone; Traders; Ziadeh, Nicola A, 1907-2006

00:10:25 - Socio-economic dynamics in Tarshīḥā

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ᾱghā, Ṣubḥī Fuʼād (Businessman); Ᾱghā, ʻUthmān Fuʼād (Businessman); Bishārah, Abū Anṭūn (Jeweler).

Families: al-Qasāṭlī; Qaddūrah; Samārah; Dughaym; Ṭāhā; Badr; Abū ʻAqṣah; al-Dabājah.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarette Manufacture (Corporation).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Sūq al-Talātā (Market).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī al-Qarn (Valley).

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural machinery; Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Blacksmithing; British colonialism; Cultivation; Education; Farmers; Flour mills; Handicrafts; Income; Inheritance; Irrigation; Land appropriation; Land sale; Landowners; Means of transportation; Neighboring villages; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Shoemakers; Tobacco trade; Trade; Waqf; Water resources; Water supplies; Work songs; al-Kābrī (Palestine)

00:25:11 - Community and family life in Tarshīḥā

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Baytam, Aḥmad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Kāmil (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad (Mayor).

Families: Muṣṭafá; al-Ᾱghā; al-Faʻūr; Milḥim; al-Muʻtaṣim; Ḥamzah; Bū Hāshim; Yūsuf; Darwīsh; al-Qabālinah; al-Jishshī.

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

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Keywords: Arbitration; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; Building practices; Clans; Coexistence; Death; Dwellings; Elections; Financial compensation; Germans; Governors; Intervillage relations; Land appropriation; Land ownership; Landowners; Lawyers; Municipalities; Neighboring villages; Olive trees; Police stations; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Social classes; al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Palestine)

00:42:31 - Social life and customs

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥittīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); Ḥamādah, Anīs (Revolutionary leader).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: al-Jamʻīyah al-Khayrīyah fī Tarshīḥā (Association).

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Keywords: Arranged marriage; Circumcision; Coexistence; Coffeehouses; Consolation; Dairy products; Dietary practices; Entertainment; Grief; Hospitality; Interreligious relations; Intervillage relations; Nadbīyah; Poets; Songs; Urban life; Wedding customs; Zaffah; al-Hayb (Arab tribe); al-Suwayṭāt (Arab tribe); al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻĪd celebrations

00:55:56 - Military activity and political conditions during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); Ḥawwā, Ḥabīb (Landowner); Sirḥān, Fāyiz (Prisoner); al-Hawwārī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Ᾱghā, Fawzī Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); ʻAlī, Darwīsh Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Shanārū, Khalīl (Resistance leader).

Families: Ḥuṭayt.

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

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab countries; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; Discriminatory measures; Executions; Home demolition; House raid; Humiliation; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Identity cards; Imprisonment; Independence; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Land sale; Murder; Prisoners' treatment; Salām, Ṣāʼib, 1905-2000; Threats; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; World War, 1939-1945; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938; al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā Aḥmad, 1895-1930; ʻĪd celebrations

01:16:00 - Military occupation and resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Resistance leader); Jadīd, Fuʼād (Arab Salvation Army commander); Shanārū, Khalīl Resistance leader); kallās, Khalīl (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Arslān, Majīd ibn Tawfīq, 1908-1983; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Damaged weapons; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Local militias; Military training; Mines; Mortars; Partition plan, 1947; Relief; Resistance movements; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Theft; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Treason; Weapon acquisition; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Qūwwatlī, Shukrī, 1891-1967; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

01:35:18 - War events and exile

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fāʻūr, ʻAbd al-Rāziq (Prisoner); Sallūm, Mukhliṣ, Naʻīm (Wounded); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); Dughmān, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arabs; Attack; Bombings; Coffeehouses; Destruction; Dispersion; Expulsion from Palestine; Grenades; Guards; Harvesting; Imprisonment; Injuries; Martyrs; Mass murder; Massacres; Mines; Miʻilyā (Palestine); Propaganda; Psychological warfare; Radio stations; Road blocks; Shootings; Tarshīḥā Battle, 1948; Traitors; Truces; Victims; Victory; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

01:49:03 - Expulsion from Tarshīḥā

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sḥurayḥ, Fāhd (Mayor).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab deception; Book reviews; Clothing and dresses; Displacement; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Fassūṭah (Palestine); Interreligious relations; Local militias; Love stories; Murder; Passing on memories; Patriotism; Personal belongings; Poetry; Property destruction; Rain; Refugee experience; Right of return; Road blocks; Routes; Seeking refuge; Suffering; Theft; Vandalism; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948