Interview with ‘Awaḍ Aḥmad Abū al-Shabāb مقابلة مع عوض أحمد أبو الشباب

Partial Transcript: Families: Wihbī.

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Building practices; Childhood; Demolition; Destruction; Dhabīḥah; Dwellings; Education; Expulsion from Palestine; Injuries; Intervillage relations; Mosques; Palestinian diaspora; Peasants; Return; Rural life; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Survival; Tobacco industry; Wedding customs

Partial Transcript: Families: Abū Shaykhah; Yāsīn; Fahd; ʻAzzām.

Significant Figures: ʻAzzām, Ḥāmid (Martyr); ʻAffāsh, Yāsīn (Martyr); ʻAffāsh, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Abū Ghunaym, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Village leader).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Collaborationists; Crimes against humanity; Disputes; Druzes; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Home bombing; Jewish immigrants; Khirbat Saʻsaʻ Massacre, 1948; Martyrs; Mass murder; Military withdrawal; Money; Murder; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pregnancies; Rain; Relief; Resistance movements; Rifles; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Seeking refuge; Survival; Syrian Army; Weapons

Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: British-Jewish relations; Collaborationists; Economic hardship; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Gunshots; Hope; Jerusalem (Palestine); Landowners; Passing on memories; Refugee experience; Right of return; Routes; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948