Interview with Muḥammad Saʻd al-Quṭṭ مقابلة مع محمد سعد القطّ

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Social life of Umm al-Faraj

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Partial Transcript: Families: Sālim; Hwaydī; al-Ḥāj Mūsá; al-Ḥāj ‘Alī; al-‘Adawī; al-ʻArīḍ; Aṣlān; Zayn al-Dīn; al-Ḥallāq.

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Agricultural products; Building practices; Children's games; Disputes; Dwellings; Economic prosperity; Education; Eldest child; Family relations; Historical events; Intervillage relations; Mayors; Morale; Population; Rural life; Siblings; Water resources; Water wells

00:14:17 - Socio-economic conditions and folk stories

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arbitration; Beisan (Palestine); British colonization; Coffeehouses; Disputes; Economic measures; Mayors; Proverbs; Storytelling

00:30:14 - Socio-political dynamics at the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Muṣṭafá, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Ḥammād, Nimir (Martyr); al-Rīnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); al-Majdalāwī, Rashīd (Poet)

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Keywords: Agriculture; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004; British colonization; Disputes; Expulsion from Palestine; Folk poetry; Lebanon; Praise; Revolutionary songs; Village siege; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:42:00 - Social and political dynamics at Umm al-Faraj

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Mayor); Sa‘dī, al-‘Abd (Public officer).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Arab Salvation Army; British Army; British army camps; Buses; Economic prosperity; Grooms; Guards; Home bombing; Jewish settlements; Land appropriation; Land sale; Marriage; Martyrs; Means of transportation; Media; Mines; News; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Weapons; Wedding celebration; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:03:27 - Expulsion to Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū al-Sa‘d, Ḥusayn (Water supplier); al-Ḥallāq, Aḥmad (Water supplier); al-ʻArīḍ, Sahl (Water supplier); al-ʻArīḍ, Ḥusayn (Water supplier).

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Keywords: Agricultural prosperity; Displacement; Druzes; Economic hardship; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Farmers; Generations; Home demolition; Hope; Kuwaykāt (Palestine); Lebanese Army; Lebanon; Nation; News; Orchards; Property appropriation; Refugee camps; Resistance; Return; Socio-economic conditions; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); United Nations; al-Zīb (Palestine)