Interview with Nadá Ḥusayn مقابلة مع ندى حسين

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

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Orphanage School (School).

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Keywords: Boarding schools; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Brokers; Childhood dreams; Economic hardship; Educational grants; Land purchase; Mines; Nazareth (Palestine); Orphans; Palestinian Jews; Religious education; Revolutionaries; Sewing; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Socio-economic conditions; Students; Teachers; Women education; Zionist occupation

00:20:02 - Social and cultural life in Shafā ʻAmrū

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Partial Transcript: Families: Bahīj; Ḥamādah; Andrāwus; al-ʻAwaḍīyah; Faraḥ; Khunayfis; Ṣāliḥ.

Significant Figures: Ḥamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Building practices; Churches; Coexistence; Dalʻūnā; Dwellings; Entertainment; Farming practices; Folktales; Groom Shower; Hospitality; Interreligious relations; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Living conditions; Marriage; Mosques; Pre-Nakba life; Priests; Professions; Religious belief; Religious diversity; Revolutionary songs; Social norms; Socio-economic conditions; Sūq; Trade; Treason; Wedding celebration; Women; al-Zubaydāt (Arab tribe); al-ʻMayriyyah (Arab tribe)

00:41:42 - Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū al-ʻaylah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Armed resistance; Arrest; Arrest; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Coexistence; Collaborationists; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Druzes; Executions; Expulsion; Honor; House raid; Intervillage relations; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Mass murder; Orchards; Pre-Nakba life; Psychological warfare; Radio stations; Resistance; Settler colonialism; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Survival; Syria; Vandalism; Violation of humanitarian law; Weapon acquisition; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977

01:04:52 - Expulsion from Shafā ʻAmrū

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Bombardment; Border crossing; Child killings; Displacement; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Homeland; Interpersonal relations; Martyrs; Mortars; Naturalization refusal; Passing on memories; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Ramaḍān; Refugee experience; Right of return; Routes; Smuggling; Suffering; Summer; War crimes; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)