Interview with Maḥmūd al-Maqdaḥ مقابلة مع محمود المقدح

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:04 - Social life at al-Ghābisīyah during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Khūbal, ‘Abdū (Teacher).

Families: ʻAlayyān; al-Mughrabī; al-Sa‘ūr.

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Keywords: Agricultural products; British authorities; Children's games; Christians; Discriminatory measures; Education; Interreligious relations; Means of transportation; Rural life; School children; Teachers; Water resources

00:20:34 - Social- economic life in al-Ghābisīyah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor).

Families: ʻAbd al-ʻĀl; ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd; Shammā; al-‘Alī; ‘Awaḍ; Zlīkhah; al-Birshallī; al-Jalīl; Ḥammād; al-Sālim.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: ‘Ā’ishah (Cave); ‘Ayn al-Tīnah (Cave); al-Khallī (Cave).

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Keywords: Antiques; Arbitration; Bedouins; British colonialism; Dowry; Dwellings; Economic sectors; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Laborers; Manners; Mayors; Means of transportation; Mourning; Professions; Social classes; Traditional medical procedures; Wedding celebration; ʻArab al-Hayb (Palestine); ʻArab al-Zubayd (Palestine); ʻĪd celebrations

00:43:31 - al-Sumayrīyah during the British Mandate and Zionist occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Aḥmad As‘ad (Resistance fighter); Rabāḥ al-‘Awaḍ (Resistance fighter); Shanāʻah, Muḥammad ‘Alī (Martyr); D‘aybis, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Lamūnah, Muḥammad (Martyr).

Families: Abd al-ʻĀl; ‘Awaḍ.

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; Battles; British forces; British-Jewish relations; Collaborationists; Destruction; Discriminatory measures; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Home demolition; Hope; Jewish settlements; Means of transportation; Military superiority; Political activity; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Revolutionaries; Rumors; Tyre (Lebanon); United Nations; Weapon acquisition; Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Sumayrīyah Battle, 1948