Interview with Sa‘īd Raḍwān مقابلة مع سعيد رضوان

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

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṣubuḥ, Sa‘īd (Shaykh); Ḥbayshī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Trader); al-Rashīd, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad (Shaykh).

Families: Abū al-Hayjā'.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Hayjā' (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); British Army; Childhood dreams; Farmers; Generosity; Grandfathers; Historical events; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Means of transportation; Miracles; Neighboring villages; Poems; Pre-Nakba life; Qurʼānic teaching; Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193; Schools; Sūq; Trade; Village leaders; Water wells; al-Ruwayyis (Palestine)

00:19:29 - Social and political conditions in al-Ruwayyis

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ismāʻīl, Qāsim (Broker).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British colonization; Circumcision; Dabkah; Grooms; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Land acquisition; Marriage; Mosques; Newspapers; Qurʼānic teaching; Settler colonialism; Water wells; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; Zaffah; al-Dāmūn (Palestine); al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻĪd celebrations

00:32:56 - Palestinian resistance and battles during the Zionist occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Idrīs, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Idrīs, ‘Alī (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Amīn, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Shuqayr, Sa‘īd al-ʻAbd (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; Attacks; British colonization; Customs and traditions; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Expulsion from Palestine; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Massacres; Military training; National guards; Newspapers; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Property destruction; Psychological warfare; Scouts; Spies; Tamrah (Palestine); Wahhāb, Shakīb, 1890-1980; Weapon acquisition; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

00:51:24 - Expulsion from Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Flayyiḥ, Rashīd (Officer).

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Keywords: Arab-Israeli Conflict; Border crossing; Dispersion; Displacement; Fathers; Homecoming; Hope; Income; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Money; Official documents; Prisoners; Refugee experience; Rmaysh (Lebanon); Traders; Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ḥāmyit Shaʻb