Interview with Ḥusayn Maḥmūd Dakwar مقابلة مع حسين محمود دكور

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Rural conditions in Palestine

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Keywords: Bread; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Collaborationists; Cost of living; Dairy products; Dwellings; Education; Famine; Farm animals; Landowners; Lebanese; Locust infestation; Military service; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Peasants; Qaddītā (Palestine); Socio-economic conditions; Taxation; Trade

00:12:33 - Arab Revolt during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Rayyā, Maryam (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; British colonialism; Collaborationists; Employment; Family structure; Hiding; Marriage; Martyrs; Military aircraft; Neighboring villages; Relief; Revolutionaries; Siblings; Tanks; Terrorism; Village siege; Water wells

00:23:17 - Military occupation and the expulsion to lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Families: Ḥlayḥil.

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Crops; Dispersion; Displacement; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Hospitality; Military withdrawal; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Return; Rifles; Syrian Army; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; ʻAkbarah (Palestine)

00:36:49 - Land, refugees and right of return

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Crops; Dispersion; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Guards; Harvesters; House rent; Lebanon; Massacres; Refugee experience; Relief; Return; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Jish (Palestine); al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948