Interview with Kāmil Aḥmad Bal‘āwī مقابلة مع كامل أحمد بلعاوي

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-‘Anabtāwī, ‘Alī (Teacher); al-Khaḍrah, Samīr (Teacher); al-Nāṣir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Sharār, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).

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Keywords: Akka (Prison: Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Balʻah (Palestine); Bedouins; British colonization; Brokers; Christians; Collaborationists; Displacement; Disputes; Druzes; Education; Educational grants; Executions; Farm animals; Farmers; Interreligious relations; Land appropriation; Land registration; Land sale; Loans; Minorities; Mothers; Murder; Muslims; Nazareth (Palestine); Public schools; Safad (Palestine); Siblings; Spies; Village siege

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Animal slaughter; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arranged marriage; British army camps; Buses; Coexistance; Convents; Craftsmen; Economic hardship; Family relations; Farmers; Handicrafts; Herbal remedies; Income; Laborers; Means of transportation; Medical care; Neighboring villages; Professions; Sūq; Trade; Trains; ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Caliph, -644

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥusayn, Ḥasan (Village leader).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).

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Keywords: British colonization; Building practices; Caves; Christians; Churches; Druzes; Dwellings; Farmers; Generosity; Gold; Group marriage; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Jews; Mothers; Muslims; Prisoners; Religious belief; Socio-economic conditions; Synagogues; Water wells; Wedding presents; al-Ṭayibah (Palestine)

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Keywords: Entertainment; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Grooms; Interreligious relations; Jewish settlements; Marriage; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Social relations; Wedding celebration; Wedding presents

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad Nimir (Resistance leader); ‘Awaḍ, Aḥmad ‘Awaḍ (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British Government; British colonization; British-Jewish relations; Christians; Clashes; Collaborationists; Druzes; Guards; Jamʻiyyat al-Iʻtiṣām; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Laborers; Military withdrawal; Muslims; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Political parties; Thieves; Unfulfilled promises; World War, 1939-1945; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist colonization; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū al-ʻUlá, Khiḍir (Resistance fighter); Yāsīn, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Abū Ibrāhīm, Abū Ibrāhīm Khalīl (Resistance leader); ʻAḍm, Hishām (Arab Salvation Army Commander); Ḥūrānī, Akram (Resistance fighter); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Sarrāj, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Poet).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Arab-Israeli conflict; Assassination; Battles; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Caves; Cities and towns; Coexistance; Collaborationists; Dispersion; Displacement; Druzes; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Food; Guards; Home bombing; Income; Iraqi Army; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Lebanon; Massacres; Military aid; Military strategy; Military training; Military withdrawal; Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970; Organizations; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Protection; Refugee experience; Resistance; Social classes; Socio-economic conditions; Syria; Truces; Weapon acquisition; Women; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Qasṭal Battle; al-Rās al-Aḥmar (Palestine); al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥassūn,Yūsuf (Poet)

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Keywords: Childhood memories; Conduct of life; Defeat; Dispersion; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Homecoming; Homeland; Hope; Mothers; Nation; Palestine; Photographs; Refugee experience; Return request; Revolutionary songs