Interview with Muḥammad Yūsuf Kāyid مقابلة مع محمد يوسف كايد

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Social dynamics in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Lifshitz, Joseph (Engineer); al-Ḥalabī, Muḥammad (Businessman); al-Sibā‘ī, Muḥammad (School principal).

Families: Zaydān; Ḥajīr; Abū Rāshid; al-Bashīr; Shiblī; al-‘Asal; Abū Shaqrā.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Baladiyat Haifa (Municipality); Dā’irat al-Rrayy wa al-Miyāh (Governmental institution).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Sibā‘ī (School); Iraq Petroleum Company (Corporation).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; British army camps; British colonization; Building practices; Currency convertibility; Dwellings; Economic prosperity; Education; Family structure; Farmers; Germans; Haifa (Palestine); Idhāʻat al-Sharq al-Adná; Income; Irrigation; Landowners; Means of transportation; Olive oil mills; Olive trees; Poems; Private schools; Public schools; Quarries and quarrying; Shaykhs; Siblings; Skirmishes; Socio-economic conditions; Teachers; Trade; Women education; al-Ṭīrah, Ṭūlkarm (Palestine); rain

00:17:56 - Socio-political history of al-Ṭīrah under British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Idrīs, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); al-Bardān, Mus‘ad (Martyr); Ḥajīr, Muḥammad ‘Abdū (Martyr); al-Dabbūr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Karmil (Mountain).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbirtation; Arrest; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Army, Royal Engineers; British colonization; Brutal treatment; Building practices; Coffeehouses; Fīlasṭīn (Newspaper); Grooms; Home bombing; House raid; Intervillage relations; Karkūr (Prison: Palestine); Marriage proposals; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Social norms; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Weapon smuggling; Wedding customs; Zionist occupation; al-Difāʻ (Newspaper)

00:37:59 - War events and the expulsion from Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Idrīs, ‘Alī (Martyr).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Aleppo (Syria); Arab Salvation Army; British colonization; British-Jewish relations; Defense; Dispersion; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Jenin (Palestine); Jordan; Landowners; Massacres; Means of transportation; News; Official documents; Palestinian resistance; Personal belongings; Psychological warfare; Radio stations; Refugee aid; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Routes; Syria; Trains; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948

00:56:37 - Humanitarian situation of the Palestinian refugees

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Partial Transcript: Families: Kāyid.

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Keywords: Baalbek (Lebanon); Birth certificates; Border crossing; Death; Destruction; Home bombing; Homeland; Land deeds; Lebanon; Maktab Filasṭīn al-Dāʼim fī Beirut; Passports; Professions; Refugee experience; Rescue work; Return; Shātīlā (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Syria; Winter; Work