Interview with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Darwīsh مقابلة مع محمد حسين درويش

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Naḥfāwī, Ḥasan (Shaykh); al-Barghūtī, Nāyif (Military officer); Abū Zayid, Nājī (Military officer); al-Shuqayrī, Aḥmad (Lawyer); al-Dīb, Shafīq (Trader); Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥmayyid, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Ḥmayyid, Qāsim (poet).

Families: Darwīsh; al-Kayyāl; Hawwāsh; ‘Alī Dīb; al-Zāyid; Khūrī.

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Akka (Palestine); British army camps; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Christians; Customs and traditions; Darwīsh, Maḥmūd, 1941–2008; Education; Farmers; Gaza (Palestine); Grooms; Interreligious relations; Intervillage relations; Means of transportation; Palestine Railways; Police; Population; Return; Schools; Traders; Traditional medical procedures; Water wells; Wedding celebration; World War, 1939-1945

Partial Transcript: Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Cinema al-Ahlī, (Cinema).

Significant Figures: Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-‘Abdullāh, Najīb (Revolutionary leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary leader).

Families: al-Shuqayrī; al- Saʻdī; Ḥbayshī.

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Akka (Palestine); British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; Building practices; Cities and towns; Coffeehouses; Dwellings; Fīlasṭīn (Newspaper); Interreligious relations; Police; Respect; Social relations; Weapon acquisition; al-Difāʻ (Newspaper); al-Shanṭī, Ibrāhīm Yaḥyá, 1910-1979

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Jūdī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); Hawwāsh, Yaḥyá (Revolutionary); Sulṭānah, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā (Revolutionary); Darwīsh, Shafīq (Chief justice);Bashir, ʻĀbid (Revolutionary leader); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Bayḍūn, ʻIṣām (Doctor); al-Khūrī, Salīm (Doctor).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabi Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Masjid al-Aqṣà (Mosque).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa International Hospital (Hospital).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: America Hotel (Hotel).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Arab High Committee; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Battles; British colonialism; Brutal treatment; Clashes; Economic prosperity; Hospitality; Hunger; Identity cards; Interpersonal relations; Interreligious relations; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Jewish settlements; Lebanon; Martyrs; Morality; Protests against occupation; Revolutionaries; Weapon acquisition; al-Birwah Battle, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; al-Ḥusaynī, Jamāl, 1893-1982

Partial Transcript: Families: Sursuq; Qūwwatlī; al-‘Aḍm; Salām; Dabbāḥ.

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Battles; British colonialism; Dispersion; Disputes; Expulsion from Palestine; Haifa (Palestine); Land sale; Landowners; Money; Nation; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Passports; Ports; Radio stations; Return; Return request; Trade; Treason; World War, 1939-1945; Zionist Invasion of Palestine,1948; al-Birwah (Palestine); al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977