Interview with Ḥammūdah Sa‘īd Ḥasan مقابلة مع حمودة سعيد حسن

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:24 - Refugee life, humiliation and isolation

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Partial Transcript: Families: ‘Aṭwāṭ; al-Shahaybah.

Significant Figures: Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ḥamādah, Ḥasan Anīs (Teacher); al-Fāhūm, Dyāb (Teacher).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port); Port Saʻīd (Port); Ministry of Educatiion (Ministry).

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Keywords: Arab countries; Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948; Childhood dreams; Children's games; Dignity; Education; Educational grants; Farmers; Fatḥ; Haganah; Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961; Homeland; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Languages; Lūbyā (Palestine); Nation; Neighboring villages; Police; Public schools; Refugees; Scandinavia; Ships; Siblings; Women education; Zionism; al-Jalīl (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)

00:28:37 - Economic conditions during British Manadate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṭāhā, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Economic prosperity; Farming practices; Income; Jewish neighbors; Landowners; Means of transportation; Military withdrawal; Palestinian unity; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police; Sūq

00:40:49 - Socio-political situation in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Shihābī, ‘Alī al-Ṣāliḥ (Shaykh); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Village leader).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shwāmīn (Maqām).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Bedouins; British-Jewish relations; Building practices; Currencies; Education; Haganah; Jewish settlements; Lūbyā (Palestine); Marriage; Mosques; Religion; Return; Social norms

00:49:36 - Refugee life and community celebrations

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sallūm, Farḥāt (Poet); Badīʻah, Muṣṭafá (Poet).

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Keywords: Historical events; Hope; Horses; Memoires; Nation; Refugees; Wedding celebration; ʻAtābā

00:59:06 - Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Lūbyā

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṭāhā, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader).

Families: al-Shahāybah.

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Brutal treatment; Burial; Caves; Kibbutzim; Martyrs; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Resistance; Tanks; Taxes; Vandalism; Weapon acquisition; Weapon trade; Women; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977

01:13:46 - War time and military occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader); al-A‘awar, Bashīr (Lebanese Deputy).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Collaborationists; Conspiracy; Dignity; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Martyrs; Massacres; Media; News; Population; Resistance; Syria; Syrian Army; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; ʻAzzām, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1893-1976

01:28:08 - Refugee life and isolation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Salīm, Fawzī (Mayor).

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Keywords: Arab countries; Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004; Dignity; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine, 1948; Humiliation; Israeli Army (IDF); Money; Nakba; Nation; Poems; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Return; Settler colonialism; Yawm al-Ard; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Ṣāʻiqah

01:43:04 - Land, refugees and right of return

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Jarbunī, ‘Alī (Revolutionary leader).

Families: Sursuq.

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Keywords: Arab countries; British colonialism; Cities and towns; Cowardice; Emotions; Homeland; Hope; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Landowners; Media; Nationalism; Official documents; Passing on memories; Poems; Police; Rantīsī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1947-2004; Refugee camps; Salāmah, ʻAlī Ḥasan, 1940-1979; Salāmah, ʻAlī Ḥasan, –1979–; Terrorism; United States of America; Yāsīn, Aḥmad, 1936-2004; Zionism