Interview with Maryam Maḥmūd Ṣabḥah مقابلة مع مريم محمود صبحة

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Social life in al-Zīb

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Partial Transcript: Families: Māḍī; ʻAṭāyā; al-Shaykh Ṭāhā; Yūsuf; al-Saʻdī.

Significant Figures: al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Village leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arranged marriage; Bedouins; Building practices; Child labour; Children's games; Conduct of life; Cultivation; Dairy products; Dhabīḥah; Dolls; Dwellings; Education; Farm animals; Hunger; Illiteracy; Inheritance; Land appropriation; Land ownership; Military service; Olive trees; Orchards; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Public lands; Pumps; Religion; Rural life; Social classes; Taxes; Trade; Water wells; Weaving; al-Zīb (Palestine)

00:20:21 - Palestinian-Jewish relations and religious beliefs

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm (Maqām); al-Shaykh Ḥasan (Maqām); al-Shaykh al-Maghāzī (Maqām).

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Keywords: British-Jewish relations; Conduct of life; Cost of living; Currency convertibility; Land sale; Mayors; Medical aid; Medical doctors; Nahariya (Jewish Settlement: Palestine); Palestinian-Jewish relations; Religious belief; Vows; Zionist occupation; al-Zīb (Palestine)

00:29:44 - al-Zīb during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Shaykh Ṭāhā, Khalīl (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Yūsuf (Revolutionary); al-Shaykh Ṭāhā, Yūnus (Martyr); al-ʻAlwānī, Yūsuf (Martyr); ʻAṭāyā, Muḥammad ʻĪsá (Martyr); al-Shaykh Ṭāhā, Kāmil (Wounded).

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Keywords: Ambushes; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Arrest; British Army, Royal Engineers; British army camps; British colonialism; Checkpoints; Crimes against humanity; Injuries; Jewish immigrants; Mines; Murder; Peasants; Prisoners; Resistance movements; Settler colonialism; al-Zīb Massacre, 1947

00:43:25 - Zionist occupation and the expulsion

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-ʻAbdullāh, Ḥasan (Marytr); Khaṭṭāb, Yūnus (Martyr); ʻAṭāyā, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-ʻAlwānī, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Shaykh Ṭāhā, Khalīl Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Faḍl, Fāyiz (Survivor).

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Keywords: Ambushes; Arab countries; British Army, Royal Engineers; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Despair; Dynamite; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Haganah; Mass murder; Military superiority; Nahariya (Palestine); Olive trees; Property destruction; Remapping national territories; Resistance movements; Rifles; Right of return; Skirmishes; Survival; Trucks; Weapon acquisition; Women in armed conflicts; al-Zīb Massacre, 1947