Interview with Rif‘at al-Nimir مقابلة مع رفعت النمر

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Palestinian popular resistance during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Sukhun, Mamdūḥ (Teacher); Zayn al-Dīn, Farīd (School principal); al-Ṭāhir, Aḥmad (Doctor); Yāsīn, Kamāl (Revolutionary).

Families: al-Nimir.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Ibtidāʼīyah al-Hāshimīyah (School); Madrasat al-Ṣalāḥīyah (School); Madrasat al-Najāḥ al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat al-Manshīyah (School).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Book reviews; British colonialism; British policy; Culture; Dairy products; Dayr Sharaf Battle, 1936; Dietary practices; Hospitality; Ittiḥād al-Ṭullāb al-ʻArab; Jaffa (Palestine); Jordan; Military training; Nablus (Palestine); Scouts; Strikes; Students; Wādī al-Tuffāḥ Battle, 1936; Zionism; al-Ḥāj Muḥammad, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1892-1939

00:17:35 - Political activity during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Families: Tuffāḥah.

Significant Figures: al-Sukhun, Mamdūḥ (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Book reviews; British colonialism; Bullets; Collaborationists; Death; Dietary practices; Earthquakes; Government officials; Imprisonment; Jaffa (Palestine); Kamāl, Wāṣif, 1907-; Means of transportation; Nablus (Palestine); Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Pistols; Protests; Revolutionaries; Socio-economic conditions; Taxes; Vandalism; Waqf; Zaʻaytir, Akram, 1909-1996; al-Ḥarakah al-ʻArabiyyah al-sSiriyyah; al-Ḥāj Muḥammad, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1892-1939; al-Ṣarafand (Prison: Palestine); Ḥarakat al-Qawmiyyīn al-ʻArab

00:41:43 - Higher education in Egypt and political activity before Nakba

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Zayn al-Dīn, Farīd (School principal); Naṣṣār, Fuʼād (Revolutionary); Shāhīn, Rushdī (Revolutionary); ʻAzzām, ʻAbd al-Wahāb (University professor).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Ḥāj Nimir al-Nābulsī (Mosque).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arab nationalism; Battles; Collaborationists; Education; Egypt; Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā, 1889-1973; Imprisonment; Investigation; Iraqi Army; Ittiḥād al-Ṭullāb al-ʻArab; Ittiḥād al-ṭulāb al-ʻArab; Jenin (Palestine); Mortars; Nablus (Palestine); Revolutionaries; Unemployment; al-Saʻīd, Nūrī, 1888-1958; al-Ḥizb al-Shuyūʻī al-Filasṭīnī; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻAzzām, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1893-1976

01:03:20 - Employment at al-Bank al-ʻArabī

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Kubrah, Mahdī (Revolutionary); al-Samrāʼī, Fāyiq (Revolutionary).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Najāḥ (School).

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Keywords: Arab nationalism; Baghdad; Barghūtī, ʻUmar al-Ṣāliḥ; Employment; Executions; Illiteracy; Kamāl, Wāṣif, 1907-; Nablus (Palestine); Nābulusī, Sulaymān, 1908-1976; Shūmān, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, 1890-1974; Teachers; al-Saʻīd, Nūrī, 1888-1958; al-Ḥarakah al-ʻArabiyah al-Siriyyah; al-Ṣarafand (Prison: Palestine)

01:22:41 - Social and political parties in Nablus

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṭūqān, Sulaymān (Mayor); al-Shaqʻah, Aḥmad (Trader); al-Maṣrī, Ṭāhir (Trader).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻUthmānī (Bank); Barclays Bank (Bank).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Jāmiʻat al-Najāḥ (University).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Coexistence; Interreligious relations; Nashashibi, Ragheb, 1882-1951; Neighborhoods; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Rafīdīyah (Palestine); Samaritans; Torah; al-Ḥizb al-ʻArabī al-Filasṭīnī; Ḥizb al-Difāʻ al-Waṭanī; ‘Abd al-Bāq ī, Aḥmad Hilmi, 1882-1963

01:29:13 - Return and expulsion from Nablus

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Farḥān, Ḥamad (Revolutionary); Ṭūqān, Muḥammad (Revolutionary).

Families: al-Nimir; Ṭūqān.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Ḥāj Nimir al-Nābulsī (Mosque).

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Keywords: Amman; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Arab nationalism; Arrest; Book reviews; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Dwellings; Employment; Ḥabash, Jūrj, 1925 or 1926-2008; Ḥaddād, Wadīʻ, 1927-1978; Iraqi Army; Jordan; Landowners; Military orders; Nablus (Palestine); Nakba; Nimr, Iḥsān, 1905-1985; Ramallah (Palestine); Refugees; Resistance; Return; Saudi Arabia; Socio-economic conditions; Waqf; al-Saʻīd, Nūrī, 1888-1958; al-Tall, Waṣfī, 1919-1971; Ḥarakat al-Qawmiyyīn al-ʻArab

01:48:47 - Hope and memories

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbdū, Khalīl (Prisoner); al-Nābulsī, Raḍwān (Prisoner); al-Qāsim, Jamāl (Prisoner); al-Sabiʻ, Hāshim (Prisoner).

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Keywords: Arab countries; Arab nationalism; Arab unity; Documents; Hope; Palestinian resistance; Permits; Photographs; Political prisoners; Prayers; Prisoners' treatment; Saudi Arabia; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Ṣarafand (Prison: Palestine)