Interview with Maryam Aḥmad al-Baḥrī مقابلة مع مريم أحمد البحري

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Education and childhood memories

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Jamʻīyah al-Islāmīyah (School).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).

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Keywords: Aunts; Beirut al-Masāʼ (Newspaper); British Army; Children's games; Diaspora; Field; Grooms; Haifa (Palestine); House rent; Reading; Women education; al-Ṭanṭūrah (Palestine)

00:11:43 - Socio-cultural dynamics at Haifa

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Maghāribah; al-Gharābilah; al-Yaḥyá; al-Dusūqī; al-‘Ashmāwī; al-Maṣrī.

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Sūq al-Shwām (Market).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Luwaysī (Maqām).

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Keywords: Aunts; Bombings; Boycott; British colonization; British policy; Discriminatory measures; Disputes; Grandmothers; Health services; Hebrew; Hospitals; Injuries; Jewish neighbors; Land appropriation; Martyrs; Miracles; Mosques; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pre-Nakba life; Religious belief; Sūq; Taxes; Trains; Women education; Ya'arot Hak Karmel (Jewish settlement: Palestine)

00:36:19 - Political dynamics at Haifa

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Akka Port (Port).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Ammunition; Armies intervention; Bombings; Boycott; Buses; Convents; Displacement; Egypt; Expulsion from Palestine; Fidā’iyyīn; Jewish neighbors; Jihād; Land partition; Lebanese Government; Lebanon; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Refugee experience; Seeking shelter; Ships; Tyre (Lebanon)

00:50:19 - War events and the exodus

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-Shabāb al-Islāmī (Scout association).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab countries; Birth certificates; Bombings; British police forces; Curfew; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Depression; Emotions; European Jewish Immigration; Expulsion; Food; Generations; Homecoming; Hope; Jewish settlements; Mass murder; Palestine; Palestinian diaspora; Palestinian unity; Photographs; Propaganda; Qibyah Massacre, 1953; Refugee experience; Return; Ships; Terrorism; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975