Interview with ʻĀʼishah Muḥammad al-Zayn مقابلة مع عائشة محمد الزين

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood and everyday life

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Maghārat Bayt al-Zayn (Water resources).

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Keywords: Anecdotes; Children's games; Clothing and dresses; Dwellings; Everyday life; Family relations; Lūbyā (Palestine); Siblings; Socio-economic conditions; Traders; Weddings

00:10:56 - Socio-economic dynamics in Lūbyā

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Building materials; Buses; Cross-stitch; Dwellings; Flour mills; Means of transportation; Olive oil mills; Population; Qurʼānic teaching; Rural-urban migration; Schools; Shaykhs; Socio-economic conditions; Threshing; Tools; Trade; Water resources; Women education

00:24:37 - Social relations, rites and ceremonies

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Landowner); al-‘Abd, Khalīl (Landowner); al-Khālid, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-ʻAlī, Fawwāz (Landowner); al-Ḥiṭṭinī, Muṣṭafá (Poet).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Bridal customs; Communal celebrations; Dalʻūnā; Grooms; Horses; House keys; Intervillage relations; Land deeds; Marriage proposals; Mayors; Ramaḍān; Shaykhs; Traders; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; Zaffah; Ḥinnah

00:38:27 - Community celebrations and customs

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Keywords: Arbitration; Childbirth; Children; Children's songs; Circumcision; Death; Dhabīḥah; Discrimination; Gender role; Graveyards; Interreligious relations; Killing; Mawlid; Mourning; Neighboring villages; Religion; Social norms; al-Barānkī (Nawar)

00:48:01 - Zionist occupation, battles and armed resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-‘Abd, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Sa‘īd, Yaḥyá (Mayor); al-‘Alī, Fawwāz (Shaykh); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Shaykh); al-Ḥmayyid, Ḥasan (Martyr).

Families: al-Sahāybah.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shu‘ayb (Maqām); al-Qubbah (Maqām).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Arab Salvation Army; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Bedouins; Bombardment; Boycott; Caves; Coffee; Coffeehouses; Dīwān; Expulsion from Palestine; Graveyards; Injuries; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Mass murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Political parties; Religious belief; Resistance; Rifāʻīyah (Islamic sect); Rituals; Social relations; Summer; Vows; Weapons; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Shajarah (Palestine)

01:07:42 - Expulsion, refugee life and hope to return

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Keywords: Bombings; Border crossing; Caves; Deeds; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Generations; Injuries; Land sale; Media; Medical care; News; Nimrīn (Palestine); Personal belongings; Ramaḍān; Return; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Vaccination; Water resources; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; ʻAnjar (Lebanon)