Interview with Mūsà Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāj Mūsà مقابلة مع موسى ابراهيم الحاج موسى

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
Abū Hawwāsh, Jābir أبو هوّاش، جابر , Interviewer | nn_0423
POHA, Al-Nakba Collection |
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00:00:00 - Childhood, conduct of life and employment in Umm al-Faraj

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Yūsuf (Buisnessman); Naʻīm,Salīm (Buisnessman); Huwaydī, Ibrāhīm (Carpenter); Abū Dshīshah, Khalīl (Carpenter).

Families: Zamzam; al-ʻDāwī; al- Ḥallāq; ʻAbd al-ʻĀl; al-Twaynī.

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); British Army; Building practices; Building stones; Childhood memories; Children's games; Conduct of life; Dwellings; Employment; Family structure; Farm animals; Hunting; Means of transportation; Neighboring villages; Professions; Rivers; Rural life; Safad (Palestine); Socio-economic conditions; Tools; Trade

00:32:48 - Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 in Umm al- Faraj

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Asʻad (Leader).

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Keywords: British Army; British high commissioner; Clashes; Collaborationists; Expulsion; Haifa (Palestine); Resistance; Revolutionaries; Strikes; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Weapons

00:47:11 - Social life and village geography of Umm al-Faraj

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj Mūsà,Maḥmūd (Mayor); Abū al-Saʻd, Ḥusayn (Village leader); al-Ḥāj ʻAlī, Muṣṭafà (Village leader); al-Quṭṭ, Asʻad (Doctor).

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Keywords: Arbitration; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Customs and traditions; Health conditions; Intervillage relations; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Rivers; Rural life; Social norms; Social relations; Traditional medical procedures; Traditional medicinal products; Village leaders; Wedding celebration; Wedding traditions; ‘Abdullāh, King of Jordan, 1882–1951

01:01:09 - Political turmoil during and after Nakba and final reflections

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Akka (Palestine); Arab Salvation Army; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Battles; Betrayal; British Army; Broken promises; Damaged weapons; Dispersion; Displacement; Expulsion; Expulsion from Palestine; Hope; Jordanian Army; Land partition; Martyrs; Means of transportation; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Personal belongings; Psychological warfare; Resistance; Revolutionaries; Rumors; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Weapons; Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Birwah Battle, 1948