Interview with Ḥusayn Dīb Khalīl مقابلة مع حسين ديب خليل

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Social life and traditional customs at al-Shaykh Dāwūd

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Farfaḥīnī, Dīb (Poet).

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Keywords: Building practices; Children's games; Dwellings; Farmers; Folk poetry; Hunting; Intervillage relations; Pre-Nakba life; Siblings; Uncles; Wedding celebration; al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Palestine)

00:14:24 - Education and political activities

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Teacher); Faramāwī, Qāsim (Teacher); Mir‘ī , ‘Abd (Soldier); al-ʻAdawī, Ibrāhīm (Soldier); Faraj, Aḥmad (Soldier); Mortaḍá, Rāghib (Soldier); al-Jishshī, Muḥammad (Soldier); Da‘ās, Mūsá (Corporal).

Families: Shadhlī,;

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian measures; Arrest; Border guards; British army camps; British officers; Childhood memories; Classrooms; Communal celebrations; Currencies; Landowners; Lebanon; Military training; Mortars; Qurʼānic teaching; Schools; Shaykhs; Smuggling; Socio-economic conditions; Spying; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Water resources; Weapons; Women education; al-Jish (Palestine)

00:37:44 - Socio-economic aspects of al-Shaykh Dāwūd

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Partial Transcript: Families: Qāsim; Ḥammūd; al-Shūlī; ‘Akkāwī; al-‘Aynayn; al-Mashāyikh; al-Nūr; Ayyūb; Aṣlān.

Significant Figures: Rustom, ‘Abd (Landowner); al-Baytam, Aḥmad (Mayor).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Animals; Arbitration; British army camps; Buses; Farmers; Herbal remedies; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Married couples; Means of transportation; Neighboring villages; Professions; Rural life; Self-sufficiency; Traditional medical procedures

00:51:27 - Religious pluralism and political activities

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-‘Aynayn, Mir‘ī (Revolutionary): Zaynab, ‘Alī (Revolutionary); Ḥassūn, Kamāl (Revolutionary): al-Shūlī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Shūlī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām).

Families: al-Nūr.

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab countries; Arrest; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British colonization; British-Jewish relations; Disputes; Executions; Ibrāhīm, Nūḥ, 1913-1938; Injustice; Jewish national home; Murder; Neighboring villages; Poetry; Political parties; Religious belief; Shaykhs; Tanks; Thieves; Village seige; ʻAmqā (Palestine)

01:07:06 - Political conditions during the British Mandate and Zionist occupation

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Badr (Club); Mustashfà Akka (Hospital).

Landmarks- Monuments: Qalʻat Jiddīn (Fortress).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; British colonization; British-Jewish relations; Buses; Feudalism; Hospitals; Jewish settlements; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Land sale; Martyrs; Nādī Usāmah; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Strikes; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Wounded; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Nahr (Palestine)

01:22:25 - Political dynamics at al-Shaykh Dāwūd during the Zionist occupation of Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Shaykh); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonization; Collaborationists; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Displacement; Home bombing; Hospitals; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Surrender; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:31:19 - The expulsion to Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Families: Rustom.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: al-Bahjah airport.

Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, 'Uthmān (Martyr); Abd al-ʻĀl, Abd al-ʻĀl (Martyr); Ṭamalāwī, Muḥammad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab countries; British-Jewish relations; Decision making; Expulsion from Palestine; Harvesting; Jewish immigration; Lebanon; Massacres; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Radio stations; Return; Skirmishes; Zionist colonization; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948

01:42:52 - Exodus and refugees' experience

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Partial Transcript: Families: Baytam; ʻAkkāwī; Yāsīn.

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Keywords: Arab countries; Diseases; Displacement; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Generations; Home demolition; Homecoming; Homeland; Hope; Land policy; National identity; Refugee experience; Return; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Wounded