Interview with Ḥasan Qāsim Zayn مقابلة مع حسن قاسم زين

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood and education in al-Mazraʻah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Saʻīd, Muḥammad (Shaykh).

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Keywords: Education; Family structure; Fathers; Hardship; Jewish settlements; Laborers; Punishment; Schools

00:09:15 - Economic conditions, employment, and agricultural life

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥasan, Badr (Foreman).

Families: Saʻd; al-Zayn; Qallūs; Ḥijāzī; al-Ḥaddād.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nahr al-Kābrī (River).

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Agricultural products; British Mandate for Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; Carriages; Farming practices; Income; Irrigation; Laborers; Landowners; Means of transportation; Taxes; al-Mazraʻah (Palestine)

00:26:18 - Customs, Traditions, and Socio-political life

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Najamī, Salīm (Leader); al-Kurdī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).

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Keywords: Akka (Prison: Palestine); Arbitration; Arranged marriage; Arrest; Bombings; Consolation; Crime; Dabkah; Diseases; Grooms; Harvesting; Herbal remedies; Intervillage relations; Leaders; Marriage proposals; Medical aid; Military withdrawal; Murder; Nādī Usāmah; Prisoners' treatment; Wedding celebration; Wedding customs; Wedding songs; al-Mazraʻah (Palestine); ʻĪd celebrations

00:51:33 - Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Attempt at return; Dispersion; Economic aid organizations; Family structure; Hardship; Home demolition; Imprisonment; Military training; Mothers; Nostalgia; Refugee experience; Truces; Weapons; Wives; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine); ʻAbbūd, Ibrāhīm, 1900-1983?