Interview with ‘Alī Saʻīd al-Mughrabī مقابلة مع علي سعيد المغربي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:01 - Economic conditions at Ma‘dhar during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAnabtāwī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Ṭabarī, Fāyiz (Lawyer).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Steel Wheat Company (Corporation).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural products; British colonialism; British policy; Children's games; Economic hardship; Education; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Landowners; Loans; Mayors; Means of transportation; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Qurʼānic teaching; Schools; Socio-economic conditions; Sūq; Tiberias (Palestine); Traders; al-Mukhtār (Magazine)

00:24:31 - Wedding traditions and land appropriation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṭabarī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); al-Ṭayyib, Ibrāhīm (Land broker); Nehmani, Yusef Mendel (Land broker).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Kyron Kenneth Company for Land Purchase (Corporation).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-ʻAdil al-ʻUlyā (Court).

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Keywords: British authorities; Disputes; Elections; Gifts; Grooms; Intervillage relations; Jerusalem (Palestine); Jewish settlements; Judges; Khaḍrā, Ṣubḥī, 1895-1954; Land appropriation; Land sale; Landowners; Marriage proposals; Mayors; Neighboring villages; Remapping national territories; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Social norms; Trials and tribulations; Wedding celebration

00:51:30 - Arab Revolution during British colonialism

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Mukhārī, Muḥammad ‘Alī (Mayor).

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Keywords: Arrest; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Boundaries; British colonialism; Collaborationists; Haganah; Jewish immigration; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Revolutionaries; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Weapons confiscation; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

01:10:20 - War events and the expulsion to Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Cyprus; Dayshūm (Palestine); Displacement; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Hebrew; Jewish neighbors; Lebanese Army; Lebanese Government; Massacres; Means of transportation; Military withdrawal; Mortars; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Refugee camps; Safad (Palestine); Sa‘d, Ma‘rūf, 1910-1975; Tanks; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Burj al-Shamālī (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); al-Harrāwī Battle, 1948; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964