Interview with Ḥusayn ʻAlī Shraydī مقابلة مع حسين علي شريدي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Social life during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Qādirī, ‘Alī Sa‘īd (Teacher); Shihāb, Fawzī (Teacher); Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher); Zaydān, Aḥmad (Martyr).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Bombings; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Childhood dreams; Children's games; Education; Farm animals; Farmers; Forced labor; Hospitals; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Rural life; Students; Tobacco trade; Women education; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; al-Ṣafṣāf (Palestine)

00:14:05 - Characteristics of al-Ṣafṣāf

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Farhūd, Abū Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Ṣūlī, Aḥmad (Martyr); Yūnus, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Martyr); Saʻīd, ʻAlī (Shaykh).

Families: Shraydī; Yūnus; Zaghmūṭ; Ḥamad; Ṣāliḥ.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Jarmaq (Mountain).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonization; Building practices; Burial; Caves; Clothing and dresses; Dietary practices; Dwellings; Family farms; Farmers; Folk poetry; Horseback riding; House raid; Interreligious relations; Jewish immigration; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Professions; Revolutionaries; Sewing; Songs; Sūq; Tobacco trade; Village siege; Wedding celebration; Work songs

00:29:26 - Socio-political dynamics at al-Ṣafṣāf

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).

Significant Figures: Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif (Martyr); Zaghmūṭ, Hāshim (Policeman).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kanʻān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbitration; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British authorities; British colonization; British police forces; British-Jewish relations; Caves; Disputes; Dīwān; Farm animals; Farmers; Haganah; Identity cards; Injustice; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Land appropriation; Mayors; Palestinian Jews; Social norms; Taxes; Water resources; World War, 1939-1945; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:45:08 - Warfare and occupation of al-Ṣafṣāf

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Atāsī, Jawdat (Arab Salvation Army commander); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); Zaghmūṭ, Ismā‘īl al-Nāsir (Village leader).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kanʻān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Attacks; British-Jewish relations; Defense; Dietary practices; Displacement; Druzes; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Farmers; Haganah; Jewish settlements; Mines; Mortars; Neighboring villages; Rumors; Safad (Palestine); Seeking shelter; Skirmishes; Tanks; Village leaders; Weapon acquisition; Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Ṣafṣāf Battle,1948; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Massacre, 1948

01:04:58 - Expulsion to Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥasnah, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Shraydī, ‘Abdullāh Aḥmad (Martyr); Shraydī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Shraydī, Sa‘īd al-Khālid (Martyr); Shraydī, al-‘Abd (Martyr); Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr).

Families: Yūnus; Ḥamad; al-Ṣāliḥ.

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; British-Jewish relations; Dispersion; Expulsion from Palestine; Generations; Guards; Hardship; Injustice; Martyrs; Military withdrawal; Nation; Nostalgia; Palestine; Property appropriation; Property loss; Rape; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Return; Seeking shelter; Siblings; Suffering; Water resources; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948