Interview with Ibrāhīm Maḥmūd Blaybil مقابلة مع ابراهيم محمود بليبل

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood, education and political conditions in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaṭīb, Ḥamādah (Shaykh); al-Nabhānī, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Children's games; Education; Executions; Farmers; Farming practices; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Land appropriation; Mosques; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Schools; Siblings; Swimming; al-Burāq Revolt, 1929; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā Aḥmad, 1895-1930; Ṭayṭabāh (Palestine)

00:17:24 - Study and teaching during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Zanānīrī, Jamīl (Public officer); Khalīfah, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Ṭaʻān, ‘Abd al-Karīm (School principal).

Families: Sulaymān.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat Khaḍūrī al-Zirā‘īyah (School).

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Keywords: British Army; Coeducation; Education; Income; Mizrahi Jews; Nuclear bomb; Palestine Railways; Police; Trenches; World War, 1939-1945; ʻAlmā (Palestine)

00:36:00 - Socio-economic conditions under the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Families: Shanā‘ā, Blaybil; al-Rifā‘ī; al-Sa‘dī; Dahshih; ʻAlī Qāsim.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Abū Rabī‘ah (Mountain).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Tapline (Corporation).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Airports; Arab Salvation Army; Bombings; Building practices; Cities and towns; Dwellings; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Farmers; Neighboring villages; Police; Religion; Religious belief; Rifāʻīyah(Islamic sect); Tel Aviv (Jewish settlement: Palestine); al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; ʻAlmā (Palestine); Ṭayṭabā (Palestine)

00:56:25 - Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rifāʻī, Khālid al-Ḥusayn (Mayor); Sha‘th, ‘Alī (School principal); Dahshih, Abū ‘Aṭā (Revolutionary); Blaybil, Abū Fu’ād (Martyr); al-Sa‘dī, al-‘Abd (Martyr).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Jarmaq (Mountain).

Families: al-‘Ajjāwī.

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British Army; Brutal treatment; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Forced labor; Home bombing; Martyrs; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; al-Asbaḥ, ʻAbdullāh, 1910-1938

01:08:51 - War time and political occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Nīsān, Sālim (Trader); al-Rifāʻī, Khālid (Martyr); al-Rashīd, ‘Īsá (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British-Jewish relations; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Jewish immigrants; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Personal belongings; Religious diversity; Safad (Palestine); Swimming; World War, 1939-1945; ʻAlmā (Palestine)