Interview with Muṣṭafá Shmaysī مقابلة مع مصطفى شميسي

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Miʻārī, Ḥusayn (Olive mill worker).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural products; Arbitration; Childhood dreams; Children's games; Disputes; Education; Family structure; Farmers; Flour mills; Friendship; Means of transportation; Mosques; Olive oil mills; Olive trees; Rural life; Schools; Shaykhs; Siblings; Teachers

Partial Transcript: Families: Ayyūb; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl.

Significant Figures: al-Shaykh Khalīl, Aḥmad (Village leader); Musāghā, Mūsá (Village leader); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Akka (Palestine); Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arbitration; Arranged marriage; Blood money; British Mandate for Palestine, 1922-1948; British policy; Dervishes; Grooms; Landowners; Population; Prayers for rain; Religious anthems; Shaykhs; Social relations; Water resources; Wedding customs; Wedding songs; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine); ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); Sirḥān, Kāmil (Martyr).

Families: Sursuq.

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural land lease; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; Bombings; British colonialism; British policy; British-Jewish relations; Buses; Expulsion; Germany; Guards; Gunshots; Haifa (Palestine); House raid; Injuries; Jewish settlements; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Killing; Landowners; Mayors; Military training; Military withdrawal; Mines; Mizrahi Jews; Murder; Palestine Railways; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Revolutionaries; Road blocks; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Trade; Trenches; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; World War, 1939-1945; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine); al-Kābrī Battle, 1948

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab countries; Attempt at return; Collaboration; Currency convertibility; Demolition; Dispersion; Druzes; House raid; Imprisonment; Injuries; Lebanon; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Prisoners' treatment; Punishment; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Return; Seeking refuge; Shootings; Vandalism; World War, 1939-1945; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation