Interview with Muḥammad Maḥmūd al-Sa‘dī مقابلة مع محمد محمود السعدي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - British political control and violence

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Murād, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Teacher); Shanāʻah, Yūsuf (Martyr); Ḥijāzī, Ṣubḥī (Martyr).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonization; British-Jewish relations; Education; Farmers; Glubb, John Bagot, Sir, 1897-1986; House raid; Media; Minorities; Murder; Palestinian Jews; Public schools; Scout; Taxes; Vandalism; Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952; Ṭayṭabā (Palestine)

00:17:10 - Resistance, revolutionaries and occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Yamānī, Aḥmad (Leader); Shanāʻah, Maḥmūd ‘Alī (Public officer); al-Jadīd, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Sa‘dī, ‘Abd al-Karīm (Resistance fighter); Dahshah, Abū ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Assassination; Bombardment; British Army; British army camps; Damaged weapons; Deception; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Income; Jamʻiyyat al-ʻUmmal al-ʻArabīyah al-Filasṭīnīyah; Jewish immigration; Lies; Mines; Palestine Railways; Palestinian resistance; Political activity; Safad (Palestine); Treason; Ṭāhā, Sāmī, 1916-1947; Weapon acquisition; World War, 1939-1945; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; Ḥūrānī, Akram, 1912-1996; Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948

00:41:28 - War events

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Jadīd, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Dahshah, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Resistance fighter); Nīsān, Salīm (Trader); Zugayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British-Jewish relations; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Military service; Mistreatment; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Poriya (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Road blocks; Sa‘d, Ma‘rūf, 1910-1975; Weapons confiscation; Zionism; Zionist colonization; al-Mālikīyah Battle, 1948; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; Ḥūrānī, Akram, 1912-1996

00:57:07 - Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rifāʻī, Khālid Ḥusayn (Mayor).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Arab Salvation Army; Attempt at return; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Home bombing; House rent; Military withdrawal; Palestine Broadcasting Service; Personal belongings; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Stern; Weapons confiscation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948; ‘Adlūn (Lebanon)

01:17:52 - Palestinian Cause

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Dispersion; Expulsion from Palestine; Injuries; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Right of return; Ḥūrānī, Akram, 1912-1996