Interview with Khalīl Muḥammad Ayyūb and Maryam Maḥmūd مقابلة مع خليل محمد أيوب ومريم محمود

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:01 - Education and everyday life in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shanā‘ah, Yūsuf (Martyr); ‘Awaḍ, Qāsim Muḥammad (Teacher).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British army camps; Building practices; Dallātah (Palestine); Dwellings; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Elementary schools; Family structure; Farmers; Neighboring villages; Pre-Nakba life; Self-sufficiency; Sūq; Women education; Ṭayṭabā (Palestine)

00:12:28 - Social conditions in Dallātah during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Uthmān, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Maḥmūd, Khālid (Musician); Aḥmad, Ḥasan (Musician); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm (Musician).

Families: Ḥlayḥil.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); Shaykh Ismāʻīl (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām).

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Keywords: British colonization; Caves; Dhabīḥah; Dwellings; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Jokes; Land sale; Landowners; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Patrol; Population; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Religion; Religious belief; Safad (Palestine); Wedding celebration; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938

00:32:55 - War time and the exodus

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Qāsim, Ḥasan (Martyr); Jdīd, Ghassān (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Attacks; Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Hope; Nation; National guards; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Return; Settler colonialism; Skirmishes; Spies; Weapons; al-Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948

00:46:37 - Political conditions and Community life

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Keywords: Arbitration; British colonization; Children's games; Dallātah (Palestine); Embroidery; Family structure; Farmers; Mayors; Mosques; Safad (Palestine); Self-sufficiency; Sewing; Shaykhs; Women; Women education; Women in agriculture

00:59:30 - Political turmoil, resistance and military activity

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām); Shaykh Ismā‘īl (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural prosperity; Attacks; British colonialism; Dīwān; Expulsion from Palestine; Folk songs; Mayors; National guards; Newspapers; Palestinian-British relations; Prayers for rain; Religious belief; Revolutionaries; Theft; Weapons; Women; Women in armed conflicts

01:14:40 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Compensation; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Homeland; Lebanon; Nostalgia; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Return; Syria; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Massacre, 1948; Ṣalḥah Massacre, 1948