Interview with Muḥammad Muḥammad مقابلة مع محمد محمد

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Socio-cultural conditions in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Yāsīn, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá (Governor); al-Saʻīd, Ibrāhīm Yaḥyá (Writer); Ḥmaydī, Ḥasan (Teacher); Nakhlah, Naṣrī (School principal); ‘Abd al-Qādir, Muḥammad (Teacher); Kharṭabīl, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Fahūm, Muḥammad (Teacher); Nāsir, ‘Abdullāh (Teacher); Sulymān, Mūsà Aḥmad (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Naṣir Muḥammad (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad Ḥūrān (Teacher); Ḥmayyid, Muḥammad Jawhar (Teacher); Sulymān, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Teacher).

Families: al-‘Aṣāfirah; al-Z‘ātirah; al-‘Athāminah; al-Manāṣirah; al-‘Aṭwāṭ.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Bīr Zayt University (University); al-Maqlá (Public bath); al-Rīḥ (Public bath); al-Balsam (Public bath).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nahir al-Yarmūk (River).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Boundaries; British colonization; Childhood dreams; Children's games; Education; Farmers; Jewish national home; Landowners; Lūbyā (Palestine); Means of transportation; Passing on memories; Poems; Schools; Siblings; Socio-economic conditions; Traders; Travel; Water resouces

00:17:06 - Socio-economic structure of Lūbyā

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sharīf, Muḥammad (Trader); al-Ḥasan, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Doctor); al-Muṣṭafá, Qawāṭīn Muḥammad (Mayor); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Aḥmad Hūrān (Driver); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Buses owner).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Trans Hospital (Hospital); al-ʻAfifī Bus Company (Corporation); Jarjūrah Bus Company (Corporation); Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Steel Bus Company (Corporation).

Families: al-‘Aṣāfirah; al-Za‘ātirah; al-‘Athāminah; al-‘Aṭwāt; al-‘Awāydih; al-Manāṣrih; al-ʻAjāynih; al-Kafārnih; al-Ḥajājwih; al-Shahāybih; al-Kīlānī; al-Rifā‘ī.

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British colonization; Chickenpox; Confiscation; Customs and traditions; Diseases; Dowry; Dīwān; Farmers; Farming practices; Harvesting; Landowners; Marriage; Means of transportation; Medical care; Neighboring villages; Skirmishes; Smuggling; Teachers; Traditional medical procedures

00:35:29 - Political activities during the British mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sulaymān, Zakī Aḥmad (Officer); Ḥaddād, Zakī (Mayor);‘Uqlah, Abū ‘Alī Aḥmad (Revolutionist); al Nazzāl, Aḥmad Salīm (Revolutionist); al-Aḥmad, ‘Awaḍ (Revolutionist); al-Jawhar, Samīr (Revolutionist); Abū ‘Alī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionist); al-Dīrāwī, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionist); al-Dīrāwī, Yahyá (Revolutionist); Birrū, Abū Khālid (Revolutionist); Dhyāb, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Revolutionist); Ḥmayyid, Jarmīsh (Revolutionist); Ḥmayyid, Ḥāfiẓ (Revolutionist); al-Manṣūr, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Revolutionist); al-Saʻīd, Yaḥyà (Mayor).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbitration; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Army; British colonization; Brutal treatment; Collaborationists; Dīwān; Hiding; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Jewish national home; Lūbyā (Palestine); Palestinian-Jewish relations; Punishment; Relief requests; Revenge; Village leaders; Weapon acquisition; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; ʻĪd celebrations

00:49:57 - War events and the Zionist occupation of Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Saʻīd (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Qādir, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá (Matyr); al-Ḥasan, Mūsá Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Revolutionary); al-Ḥasan, Mufḍī, Sāmī (Resistance fighter); al-Manṣūrī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, ʻĀrif (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Muṣṭafá Ḥūrān (Resistance fighter); al-Rashrāsh, ‘Alī (Policeman); Ṭāhā, ‘Alī Dyāb (Resistance fighter); al-Nazzāl, Șubḥī (Martyr); al-Ḥmayyid, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-ʻĀydī, Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd (Leader).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; British Army; British-Jewish relations; Coexistance; Courage; Curfew; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Haganah; Harvesting time; Jewish settlements; Land purchase; Land sale; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Martyrs; Mines; Murder; National Guards; Neighboring villages; Palestinian resistance; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Return; Settler colonialism; Socio-economic conditions; Syrian Army; Tanks; Telephone; Weapons; Weapons confiscation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977