Interview with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lubānī مقابلة مع حسين علي لوباني

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Zayādinah; al-Biqā‘īyah; al-‘Ayāyshah; al-‘Athāminah; al-Lawābinah.

Significant Figures: al-Zaydānī, Ṣāliḥ (Historical figure); 'Ubayd, Shafīq (Principal); al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Childhood memories; Churches; Destruction; Education; Handicrafts; Khalidi, Walid, 1925-; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Population; Religious diversity; Schools; Tall Kīsān (Palestine); Zaydānī, Ẓāhir al-ʻUmar, 1750-1775; al-Dāmūn (Palestine); al-Na‘āmayn River

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-ʻAbbūd, Jubrān (Landowner).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Childhood memories; Coexistence; Communal celebrations; Dietary practices; Disputes; Easter; Harvesting; Ḥajjār, Ghirīghuriyūs, 1875-1940; Interreligious relations; Means of transportation; Orchards; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Rural life; Tools; Work songs; al-Dāmūn (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAzīz, Aḥmad (Poet); al-Mrāḥ, Shanā‘ah (Poet); al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher).

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Keywords: Customs and traditions; Dalʻūnā; Folk songs; Girls; Jafrā; Love; Manāṣirah, ʻIzz al-Dīn; Means of transportation; Mījānā; Swings of ʻĪd; Trees; Ululation; Wedding songs; ʻAtābā; Ẓarīf al-Ṭūl

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Saʻīd, As‘ad (Poet); al-Asadī, Abū Sa‘ūd (Poet); al-Rīnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-Biqā‘ī, Ḥaydar (Village leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Circumcision; Farming practices; Folk songs; Prayers for rain; Ritual; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); Jayyūsī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Poet).

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Keywords: Akka (Prison: Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Barghūthī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Maḥmūd, 1928-2002; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Ibrāhīm, Nūḥ, 1913-1938; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Jewish Immigrants; Land sale; Poems; Revolutionaries; Revolutionary songs; Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, Viscount, 1870-1963; Skirmishes; Strikes; Weizmann, Chaim, 1874–1952; Zajal; al-Burāq Revolt, 1929; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā Aḥmad, 1895-1930; al-ʻĀṣ, Saʻīd, 1889-1936; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ṭūqān, Ibrāhīm ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ, 1905-1941; ‘Atābā

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Wihbī, Mārūn Ilyās (Poet); Abū al-ʿAsal, Riyāḥ Ḥannā (Bishop).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; Coexistence; Expulsion from Palestine; Haganah; Poems; Revolutionary songs; Women in armed conflicts; al-Qasṭal Battle, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Ṭirah Battle; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

Partial Transcript: Families: Sarḥānī; Abū al-Hayjā; Fir‘im; ‘Uthmānī; al-Shanā‘ah; Ka‘wash; Zaghmūṭ; Shraydī.

Significant Figures: al-Asadī, Abū Sa‘ūd (Poet); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); ʻArafāt, Jamīl (Author).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kan‘ān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Barghūthī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Maḥmūd, 1928-2002; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Nostalgia; Poems; Refugee aid; Revolutionary songs; Rural life; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Villages; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, -1938

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Biqā‘ī, Ḥaydar (Village leader).

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Keywords: Bridal customs; Dietary practices; Engagement; Folk poetry; Grooms; Poets; Revolutionary songs; Ululation; Wedding celebration; Wedding customs; Wedding songs; Zaffah

Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nahir al-Na‘āmayn (River).

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Keywords: Bombardment; Children's games; Expulsion from Palestine; Hunting practices; Jewish Immigrants; Jewish settlements; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Traps; al-Dāmūn (Palestine)

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Bombings; Childbirth; Cities and towns; Displacement; Evacuation; Executions; Forced evacuation; Haganah; Hardship; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Palestinian resistance; Religious belief; Routes; Sakhnīn (Palestine); Seeking refuge; Spies; Tanks; Traditional medical procedures; Victory; Yawm al-Arḑ; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Birwah Battle, 1948; al-Dāmūn (Palestine); Ḥaṭṭah

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Walī, Fu’ād (Teacher).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Company (Corporation).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Displacement; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Hardship; Home evacuation; Humiliation; Lebanon; Military withdrawal; Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Shootings; Villages

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Bāsh, Ḥasan (Author); al-Mubayyīḍ, Salīm ‘Arafāt (Author); Sirḥān, Nimir (Author); al-Dājānī, Mu‘taz (Director of the Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts).

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Keywords: Arabic proverbs; Book reviews; Folk tradition; Heritage; Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982; Israeli colonization; Mar Elias (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Palestinian resistance; Students; Teachers; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Villages; al-Dāmūn (Palestine)