Interview with Aḥmad Dawāymah مقابلة مع أحمد دوايمة

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood memories in Ijsim

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Dawāynī; al-Khūrī.

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Keywords: British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Child labour; Coffee; Custody; Employment; Family structure; Fathers; Haifa (Palestine); Histadrut; Illiteracy; Income; Jewish immigrants; Mistreatment; Orphans; Palestine Railways; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Religious belief; Settler colonialism; Socio-economic conditions; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Yibnah (Palestine)

00:12:34 - Palestinian-Jewish relations and interreligious marriage

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

Significant Figures: Ṣafadī, Sāmī (Tailor).

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Keywords: Bakeries; British Army; British Mandate for Palestine, 1920-1948; Coffee; Employment; Entertainment; Haifa (Palestine); Identity cards; Income; Interreligious marriage; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Mizrahi Jews; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Settler colonialism; Ships

00:23:18 - Revisiting Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Māḍī.

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

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Ḥisbat Haifa (Market); Ḥammām al-Bāshā (Public bath).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Brokers; Clashes; Coexistence; Collaborationists; Destruction; Discriminatory measures; Displacement; Emotions; Expulsion; Family reunification; Haifa (Palestine); Home demolition; Humiliation; Iraqi Army; Israeli checkpoints; Jaysh Lubnān al-Janūbī; Jewish immigrants; Neighborhoods; Nostalgia; Olive trees; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Permits; Remapping national territories; State of Israel; United Nations; Water resources

00:46:30 - Political turmoil, battles and military occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaṭīb, Nimir (Shaykh); Murād, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Shaykh).

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

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Keywords: Armed resistance; British policy; Children; Governors; Guards; Hadar (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Jamʻiyyat al-Iʻtiṣām; Jamʻiyyat al-ʻUmāl al-ʻArabiyah al-Filasṭīniyah; Jerusalem (Palestine); Machination; Military superiority; Military training; Mines; Ports; Skirmishes; Tanks

00:55:24 - Expulsion from Haifa

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Naffāʻ, Yūnus (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Aid; Akka (Palestine); Ammunition; Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948; Boats; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Chehab, Fuad, 1902-1973; Damaged Weapons; Dispersion; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Food; Guards; Ijzim; Illiteracy; Imprisonment; Income; Injuries; Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982; Jordanian Army; Laborers; Mayors; Pamphlets; Peacekeeping operations; Personal belongings; Porters; Ports; Radio stations; Relief; Right of return; Routes; Safad Battle, 1948; Socio-economic conditions; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:13:36 - Refugee experience in exile

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Keywords: Damaged Weapons; Death; Economic hardship; Fathers; Israeli colonization; Lebanese Army; Ramaḍān; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Religious belief; Right of return; Syria; Traitors; Victory; Weapons confiscation; Yibnah (Palestine)