Interview with Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Rashīd مقابلة مع أحمد عبدالرحيم الرشيد

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:02 - Social and economic conditions at Naḥf

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj ʻUbayd, Shafīq (Teacher); al-Nāṭūr, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); al-Qāsim, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-‘Abdullāh, Aḥmad (Mayor).

Families:‘Abd al-Ghanī; ‘Abbās; Maṭar; Qays; Ayyūb; Sa‘īd.

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural products; British colonialism; Children's games; Classrooms; Discriminatory measures; Education; Farm animals; Farmers; Income; Landowners; Mayors; Neighboring villages; Official documents; Population; Public schools; Students; Sūq; Traders; Water resources; Women education; socio-economic conditions

00:13:08 - Social Life in Naḥf

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Aḥmad, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (Shaykh); Shukur, Ḥasan (Poet); al-‘Ābid, Ṣāliḥ (Poet); al-‘Ābid, ‘Ābid (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Najīb (Poet);al-Ḥāj Maṭar, Jamāl (Village leader); al-Yasīn, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Rashīd, Sa‘īd (Village leader).

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Keywords: British colonization; British police forces; Building practices; Consolation; Folk poetry; Funerals; Harvesting; Intervillage relations; Marriage; Neighboring villages; Revolutionary songs; Tanks; Village siege; Wedding celebration; al-Jabhah al-Dīmuqrātīyah li Taḥrīr Filasṭīn; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:25:51 - Political activities at Naḥf

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Dūkhī, Șāliḥ (Martyr); al-Dūkhī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Mūsà, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Sa‘īd, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Khālid, ‘Abd al-Salām (Resistance fighter); al-Shākir, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Laylá, ‘Ābid (Poet).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Ammunition; Battles; British army camps; British colonization; British police forces; Brutal treatment; Children; Collaborationists; Guards; Income; Laborers; Mines; Palestinian resistance; Poetry; Prisoners' treatment; Revolutionary songs; Smuggling; Trenches; Truces; Village siege; Weapon trade; Weapons; Zionist occupation; Ḥāmiyat Shaʻb

00:49:53 - Battles and Resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Tik, Salīm (Land broker); Abū ‘Abdū, Shafīq (Land broker); Yūnus, ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Muṣṭafá, Muḥammad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Battles; Checkpoints; Collaborationists; Druzes; Guards; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Health services; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Martyrs; Mīʻār (Palestine); Palestinian-Jewish relations; Radio stations; Resistance; Tanks; Treason; Truces; Wahhāb, Shakīb, 1890-1980; Water wells; Weapon acquisition; Women; Wounded; al-Birwah Battle, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977

01:00:23 - War diaries

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Monuments: Mghārit al-‘Arab (Cave).

Significant Figures: al-Rashīd, Sa‘īd (Martyr); al-Raḍwān, Ibrāhīm (Jailer); al-Shūwaylī, Abū Khiḍir (Policeman).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; British Army; Brutal treatment; Caves; Checkpoints; Expulsion from Palestine; Families; Forced labor; Injuries; Investigation; Martyrs; Mines; Nation; Prisoners' treatment; Property destruction; Return; Routes; Sakhnīn (Palestine); Seeking refuge; Smuggling; Trade; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948