Interview with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Asadī مقابلة مع حسن أحمد الأسدي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:01 - History of the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Jaylānī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Shaykh); al-Asad, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Naqqārah, Ḥannā (Lawyer).

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Keywords: Building materials; Building practices; Customs and traditions; Dayr al-Asad (Palestine); Dwellings; Haifa (Palestine); Intervillage relations; Land appropriation; Land deeds; Landowners; Maqām; Mihbāj; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Population; Religious belief; Selim I, Sultan of the Turks, 1470-1520; ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, 600-661?

00:19:45 - Childhood, education and work during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Terra-Santa School (School).

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Akka (Palestine); British Army; British colonization; British-Jewish relations; Children's games; Education; Haganah; Income; Irgun; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Private schools; Public schools; Stern; World War, 1939-1945; al-Biʻnah (Palestine)

00:36:04 - Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Dayr al-Asad

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Jdīd, Ṣalāḥ (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Ammunition; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; British army camps; British policy; Colonialism; Egyptian Army; Income; Iraqi Army; Lebanese Army; Means of transportation; Military withdrawal; Patrol; Revolutionaries; Syrian Army; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; Ḥūrānī, Akram, 1912-1996

00:50:51 - Battles and armed resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd Sa‘īd (Mayor).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; Akka (Palestine); Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; British Army; British White Paper, 1939; Burial; Dignity; Expulsion from Palestine; Fārūq of Egypt, 1920–1965; Haganah; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Hope; Irgun; Majd al-Kurūm (Palestine); Military training; Military withdrawal; Nation; Naturalization; Palestinian national identity; Patrol; Psychological warfare; Return; Revolutionaries; Rumors; Shootings; State of Israel; Stern; Victims; Weapons; World War, 1939-1945; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Biqāʻ (Lebanon); al-Birwah Battle, 1948; al-Saʻīd, Nūrī, 1888 – 1958; al-Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908–1980

01:08:14 - Refugee experience and expulsion

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Attacks; Demographics; Expulsion from Palestine; Lebanon; Means of transportation; Nation; Naturalization; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Resistance; Return; Water wells; Weather