Interview with Yaḥyá al-Mir‘ī مقابلة مع يحيى المرعي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:05 - Economic conditions in al-Ṭīrah during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣulḥ, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥammūd, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Ṭāhir, Yūsuf (Lawyer); Abū Ḥamad, Elias (Military personnel).

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Agricultural products; Arab workers; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; British officers; Building practices; Children's games; Coexistence; Dwellings; Economic prosperity; Education; Employment; Entertainment; Expulsion from Palestine; Haganah; Identity cards; Income; Iraqi Army; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Professions.; Public schools; Siblings; Social norms; Teachers; Theft; Vehicle drivers; Village siege; Women education; al-Ṭīrah (Palestine); al-Ṭīrah Battle, 1948

00:24:56 - Political turmoil, revolutionaries and popular resistance

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Partial Transcript: Families: Salmān; ʻAmmūrah; Dirbās; Ḥajīr; al-Rabbānī; ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm.

Significant Figures: al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbitration; Arrest; Bribery; British army camps; British colonization; British police forces; Carriages; Collaborationists; Conduct of life; Courts; Disputes; Entertainment.; False witnesses; Forced evacuation; Guards; Haganah; Histadrut; Interreligious marriage; Jordanian Army; Machination; Military training; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Revenge; Revolutionaries; Scouts; Treason; Ḥizb al-Najjādah

00:38:48 - Village occupation and exile

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wadi al-Jimāl (Valley).

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Keywords: Barbed wire; British army camps; Coffeehouses; Cowardice; Dispersion; Displacement; Entertainment; Forced evacuation; Guards; Haganah; Haifa (Palestine); Home bombing; Jordanian Army; Massacres; Prostitution; Relief; Resistance movements; Theft; Threats; Weapons; al-Ṭīrah Battle, 1948

00:52:06 - Land, refugees and right of return

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Keywords: Bombings; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Captivity; Crimes against humanity; Defense; Displacement; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Generations; Haganah; Hope; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Massacres; Nostalgia; Palestinian diaspora; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pamphlets; Prisoners' treatment; Psychological warfare; Radio stations; Refugee aid; Refugee camps; Right of return; Survival; Ṣabrā and Shātīlā Massacre, 1982