Interview with Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Karīm Azzām مقابلة مع محمد عبد الكريم عزّام

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:13 - Education and social dynamics in Ṣaffurīyah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Abd al-M‘uṭī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Mūsá, Yūsuf (School Principal); al-Ṭabarī, Muḥammad ‘Alī (Teacher); Fāyiq, Aḥmad (Teacher); Nʻanaʻah, Maḥmūd (Teacher);‘Azzām, Ḥasan (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Abū Ghalyūn (Arab Tribe); Antiquities; Childhood dreams; Childhood memories; Christians; Circumcision; Customs and traditions; Destruction; Dietary practices; Diseases; Education; Hunting; Poems; Qurʼānic teaching; Religious belief; Religious stories; Schools; Strikes; Traders; Traditional medical procedures; Women education; al-Ghawārinah (Arab tribe); ʻAmqā (Palestine)

00:26:08 - Community celebrations and traditions

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church); al-Nabī Qābīl (Maqām).

Significant Figures: al-ʻAlūṭī, Aḥmad (Mūadhin); Khāzin, Mūsá (Pharmacist); Abū Rādī, Ṭāhir (Trader); Abū Dabsah, Aḥmad (Trader); al-Najjār, Yaḥyá (Trader); al-Ḥiṭṭinī, Saʻīd (Poet).

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Circumcision; Farmers; Folk poetry; Folk songs; Gifts; Herbal remedies; Landowners; Mosques; Qurʼān stories; Storytelling; Traders; Traditional medical procedures

00:43:31 - Political situation in Ṣaffurīyah during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Families: Sursuq.

Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj Yāsīn, ʻAbbās (Resistance fighter);‘Abd al-Ghanī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Jarād, Sulaymān (Martyr).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004; Arrest; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British army camps; British colonization; British policy; British-Jewish relations; Cultivation; Economic prosperity; Education; Farmers; Guards; Laborers; Nation; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Prisons; Religious stories; Spies; Strikes; Taxes; Weapon acquisition

00:54:24 - Social dynamics in Ṣaffurīyah

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Partial Transcript: Families: Sulaymān; al-Maw‘ad; al-Ghanāymah; al-Sa‘dīyah.

Significant Figures: al-‘Abbās, ‘Abdullāh (Landowner); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-‘Uthmān, Maḥmūd (Village leader).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Building practices; Dwellings; Landowners; Mosques; Religion; Social classes; al-Barānkī (Nawar); al-Ṣubayḥ (Arab Tribe)

00:59:13 - Political dynamics during the Zionist occupation ant the expulsion to Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Jarād, Sulaymān (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Tawbah, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ghizz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); N‘anā‘ah, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter);al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir (Maqām); Qubur al-Zuṭṭ (Maqām)

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; Agricultural products; Agricultural prosperity; Arbitration; Border cities and towns; British colonialism; Collaborationists; Dispersion; Distress; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Ibrāhīm, Nūḥ, 1913-1938; Lebanon; Marriage; Massacres; Means of transportation; Military strategy; Military training; Military withdrawal; Nadbīyah; Neighboring villages; Palestinian resistance; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police; Religious traditions; Resistance; Settler colonialism; Social norms; Treason; Village leaders; Weapon acquisition; Women; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977