Interview with Dīb Muḥammad Khashshān مقابلة مع ديب خشان

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Education in Dayr al-Qāsī

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻUthmān, Ibrāhīm (Teacher); ʻĀrif, Khālid (Teacher); Ḥasan, Muḥsin (Teacher); Jad‘ūn, Michel (School principal).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Children's games; Cities and towns; Coeducation; Education; Educational grants; Intervillage relations; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Private schools; Social classes; Songs; Travel

00:18:32 - Social life and work experience in the British Army during the mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Military trainer); ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Jordanian Army commander).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British colonization; British officers; British police forces; British-Jewish relations; Economic conditions; Employment; Farmers; Income; Jordanian Army; Land sale; Marriage; Military training; Palestinian-Jewish relations

00:36:26 - Religious and ethnic pluralism in Palestine during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; British colonization; British police forces; Christians; Churches; Communal celebrations; Convents; Disputes; Folk songs; Interreligious relations; Intervillage relations; Jordanian Army; Mourning; Neighboring villages; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Ṭalāl, King of Jordan, 1911-1972; ʻAtābā

00:52:24 - Cultural and intervillage relations in Dayr al-Qāsī

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣādiq, Majīd (Mayor); Ma‘rūf, Muḥammad (Mayor); Zaydān, ‘Alī (Folk poet).

Families: Ma‘rūf; al-Ṣādiq; Maḥmūd; Khashshān; Qurfalī.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Tallit al-Rways (Hill).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh Jawhar (Maqām).

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Keywords: Antiquities; Building practices; Christians; Druzes; Faith; Folk poetry; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Religious belief; Scouts; Water resources; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

01:02:12 - Political conditions at Dayr al-Qāsī

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Khashshān, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Khashshān, Naʻīm (Revolutionary);Khashshān, Jamīl (Revolutionary); Jadʻūn, Michel (Translator); Sa‘ūd, Naʻīm (Martyr); Ḥammūd, Khālid (Martyr); Khashshān, Khālid (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British army camps; British colonization; British-Jewish relations; Brutal treatment; Jewish national home; Mayors; Mines; Rakhṣūn Battle, 1938; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); World War, 1939-1945

01:09:04 - War events and the Zionist invasion

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ẓāhir, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Building practices; Christians; Defense; Druzes; Guards; Hiding; Iraqi Army; Jewish settlements; Loyalty; Mines; Muslims; Nation; Patriotism; Resistance; Tarshīḥā Battle, 1948; Traps; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948

01:27:59 - Zionist occupation of the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ẓāhir, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); ʻŪthmān, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader); Ma‘rūf, Khalīl (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Buses; Defense; Guards; Jews; Mines; Minorities; Resistance; Tanks; Traps; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:37:30 - Military situation at Dayr al-Qāsī then the expulsion to Lebanon

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Arab tribes; Arafat,Yasir, 1929-2004; Border cities and towns; Border guards; Christians; Conspiracy; Defense; Dignity; Dispersion; Displacement; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Generations; Holy Lands; Home bombing; Homecoming; Homeland; Hope; House raid; Massacres; Military strategy; Mothers; Nation; Official documents; Palestinian diaspora; Palestinian resistance organizations; Palestinian unity; Propaganda; Refugee experience; Refugees; Resistance; Return; Tanks; Tenderness; Victory; al-Shukayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980