Interview with Muḥammad Jamīl ‘Arābī مقابلة مع محمد جميل عرابي

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

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Madrasat al-Hindī (School).

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Keywords: Celebrations; Children's games; Conduct of life; Education; Fathers; Haifa (Palestine); Hardship; Jewish families; Laborers; Living conditions; Qurʼānic teaching; Socio-economic conditions; Work

00:07:07 - Employment and conduct of life in Haifa

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Karmil (Mountain).

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Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; British Army; Brokers; Cinemas; Coffeehouses; Entertainment; Fathers; Forests; Income; Land sale; Languages; Lebanese; Migration; Schools; Settler colonialism; Socio-economic conditions; Sports; Summer; Swimming; Technicians

00:16:50 - Land and house sale

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Partial Transcript: Families: Salām; Sursuq; Twaynī.

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Clothing and dresses; Communists; Cost of living; Discriminatory measures; Dwellings; Explosions; Gunshots; Hebrew; Identity cards; Income; Jewish neighbors; Killing; Land purchase; Land sale; Machination; Mizrahi Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Police; Prostitution; Strikes; Taxes; Urban planning

00:33:57 - Palestinian-Jewish coexistance in Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-ʻAlamayn Bus Company (Corporation).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Karmil (Mountain).

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Keywords: Beirut (Lebanon); BenGurion, David, 1886-1973; Bombings; Building practices; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Dwellings; Employment; Food; Haifa (Palestine); Home evacuation; House burning; Interreligious marriage; Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982; Jewish neighbors; Military superiority; Mizrahi Jews; Municipalities; Palestine Railways; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Psychological warfare; Terrorism; Two-state solution; United Nations Development Programme; Vows; Wedding customs

00:51:05 - War time and military occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥamad, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Bart, Fakhrī (Martyr).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).

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Keywords: Ambushes; Arab Salvation Army; Assassination; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Discriminatory measures; Employment; Evacuation orders; Expulsion from Palestine; Gunshots; Haifa (Palestine); Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961; Jewish settlements; Jordanian Army; Priests; Return; Road blocks; State of Israel; Vehicles; Weapon smuggling; Weapons confiscation; al-Rāmāh (Palestine)

01:05:51 - Employment in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency

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

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Keywords: Assassination; Checkpoints; Currency convertibility; Dayan, Moshe, 1915-1981; Dwellings; Expulsion from Palestine; Gunshots; Haifa (Palestine); Hope; Income; Personal belongings; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Right of return; Settler colonialism; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Vehicle drivers; Vows; Zionist occupation

01:20:52 - Interreligious marriage in Palestine

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Keywords: Armored vehicles; Arrest; Ashkenazi Jews; Bombings; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Coexistence; Conduct of life; Converts; Discrimination; Discrimination practices; Divorce; Domestic violence; Employment; Foreigners; Germany; Governors; Haifa (Palestine); Hatred; Hebrew; Interreligious marriage; Jewish immigrants; Jewish neighbors; Kibbutzim; Lebanon; Living conditions; Loans; Machination; Martyrs; Mizrahi Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Proverbs; Rabbis; Technicians; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

01:47:29 - Final reflections and hope of return

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Karmil (Mountain).

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Keywords: Dwellings; Haifa (Palestine); Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990; Letters; Neighbors; Passports; Photographs; Right of return