Interview with Shafīq Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaffūrī مقابلة مع شفيق ابراهيم الصفوري

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Mahmūd (Revolutionary leader); Ḥamādah, ʻAlī Ṣāliḥ (Prisoner); Ḥamādah, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Prisoner); Qaddūmī, Fayṣal (Martyr); Qaddūmī, Ḥasan (Martyr).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Maktab (School).

Families: al-Shītī.

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Brutal treatment; Collaborationists; Dwellings; Executions; Farm animals; Farmers; Intervillage relations; Kawkab Abū al-Hayjāʼ (Palestine); Land sale; Olive trees; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Public schools; Religious diversity; Revolutionaries; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Siblings; Spies; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); Ḥassūn, Kamāl (Revolutionary); Rtāḥī, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Revolutionary); Zaynab, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; Betrayal; British Army; British White Paper, 1939; British-Jewish relations; Collaborationists; Interreligious relations; Masḥah (Prison: Palestine); Military training; Military withdrawal; Nūḥ, Ibrāhīm, 1913-1938; Prisoners' treatment; Protests against occupation; Scouts; Village siege; World War, 1939-1945; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Ṣarafand (Prison: Lebanon); Ḥanūṭah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥaddād, Buṭrus (Blacksmith); al-ʻAwādīyah, al-Ṭayyib (Blacksmith); al-ʻAwādīyah, Mṭālib (Blacksmith); Abū Ḥarb, Sulaymān (Butcher); al-Shītī, Badr (Trader); al-ʻIjjī, Nāyif (Shop owner); Stephan, Michael (Shop owner); Faraḥ, Wakīm (Landowner); Ḥamādah, Muḥammad (Landowner); Sābā, Baḥūs Ḥannā (Landowner); al-Salmān, Muḥammad (Landowner); Abū ‘Aṭīyah, Darwīsh (Landowner).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Beheading; Blood money; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Druzes; Families; Farm animals; Hawshah (Palestine); Interreligious relations; Islamic education; Killing; Moroccans; Mosques; Peasants; Population; Primary education; Public schools; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Social norms; Sūq; Teachers; Women education

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Shītī, Badr (Village leader); al-Shītī, Yūsuf (Village leader); Ḥamadah, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Salmān, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Nāṣir, ‘Alī (Buses owner); al-Khūrī, Jubrān (Manager).

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Keywords: Brides; Customs and traditions; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Farm animals; Gifts; Grooms; Horses; Interreligious relations; Invitations; Marriage proposals; Olive trees; Rites; Wedding celebration; Wedding presents; Wedding songs; ʻĪd celebrations

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Dyāb, Mwaffaq (Doctor); al-Ḥamad, ʻAzīz (Prisoner); Jabbūr, Jabbūr Yūsuf (Municipal council); Ḥamādah, Ḥamādah Muḥammad (Mayor); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm Nimir (Mayor).

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Keywords: Arbitration; British authorities; Celebrations; Childbirth; Circumcision; Disputes; Druzes; Killing; Medical care; Money; Orchards; Prisoners' treatment; Zionist occupation

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Naffā‘, Muḥammad (Poet); al-‘Adūl, Kanj (Martyr); ‘Awājah, Qāsim (Prisoner).

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Keywords: Arab countries; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British White Paper, 1939; Caves; Construction; Courts; Executions; Farm animals; Gold; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Minorities; Nūḥ, Ibrāhīm, 1913-1938; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Rural life; Sarkīs; Witnesses

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Sharqāwi, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Ḥusayn, Ṭūṭah Nimir (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Attacks; Bombardment; British; British Army; Checkpoints; City occupation; Courts; Displacement; Emotions; European Jewish Immigration; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Germans; Homeland; Injuries; Jaysh Shakīb Wahhāb; Jewish settlements; Land appropriation; Lebanon; Mines; Palestinian resistance; Refugee experience; Return; Rifles; Shafā ʻAmrū Battle, 1947; Skirmishes; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; World War, 1939-1945; Zionist Invasion of Palestine; Zionist occupation