Interview with Fāṭimah Ibrāhīm Qaddūrah مقابلة مع فاطمة ابراهيم قدورة

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood, agriculture and everyday life

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Manzūl (School).

Significant Figures: al-Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al- Fāhūm Company (Corporation); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Children's games; Farmers; Haganah; Land acquisition; Olive oil mills; Olive trees; Population; Siblings; Tobacco trade; Water resources; Water wells; Weapon acquisition; Wedding celebration; Women education

00:16:34 - Socio-economic conditions in Suḥmātā

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Abdullāh, Jamīl (Bakery owner).

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

Families: Qaddūrah; Ḥamādah; Ḥusayn; Mūsá; ‘Āmir.

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Keywords: Balfour Declaration, 1917; Churches; Clothing and dresses; Coexistence; Currencies; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Professions; Religious belief; Rmaysh (Lebanon); Treason; Village siege; Water wells

00:26:12 - Community celebration and customs

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Partial Transcript: Families: Mūsá.

Significant Figures: Qaddūrah, ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Clothing and dresses; Dhabīḥah; Emotions; Intervillage relations; Marriage; Poems; Village leaders; Wedding customs; ʻAtābā

00:33:05 - Political turmoil and social life in Suḥmātā

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).

Significant Figures: Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Childhood memories; Children's songs; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Karkūr (Palestine); Military training; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Political parties; Wedding songs; Yamānī, Aḥmad Ḥusayn, 1924-2011; Zikhron Ya'aqov - Zamarin (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Ḥarakat al-Qawmiyyīn al-ʻArab

00:45:23 - Village occupation, displacement and exile

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Partial Transcript: Families: Sursuq; Kittānah; Salām; al-As‘ad.

Significant Figures: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Wounded).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Expulsion from Palestine; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Land sale; Pamphlets; Psychological warfare; Resistance; Revolutionary songs; Treason; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

01:01:23 - Land, refugees and return

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Keywords: Dietary practices; Disputes; Economic prosperity; Farm animals; Folk songs; Haganah; Homeland; Land deeds; Medical care; Nostalgia; Palestine; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Photographs; Return