Interview with Muḥammad Sa‘īd Shraydī مقابلة مع محمد سعيد شريدي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Jūkh, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Ḥamad, Muḥammad Ṭālib (Martyr); Shraydī, Sa‘d (Revolutionary); al-Ṭālib, Ḥawwā (Wounded).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Assassination; British Army; British police forces; Brutal treatment; Collaborationists; Defense; Fathers; Mines; Revolutionaries; Rifles; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; al-Ṣafṣāf (Palestine)

00:09:37 - Work environment during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif (Policeman); Qaddūrah, Ḥikmat (Teacher); Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher); al-Ḥilū, Aḥmad (Policeman).

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Keywords: Bethlehem (Palestine); British Army; British army camps; British officers; British police forces; Captivity; Education; Empowerment; Farm animals; Germans; Guards; Haifa (Palestine); Killing; Military training; Mines; Nahalal (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Rifles; Sūq; Traders; Weapon smuggling

00:23:49 - Economic and political conditions under British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Zaghmūṭ, ‘Alī Khalīl (Policeman); Yūnus, Ḥasan (Policeman); Yūnus, Mifliḥ (Policeman); Aḥmad, ʻAbd (Village leader); Jūkh, Muḥammad (Village leader); Zaydān, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance leader); al-Maḥmūd, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance leader); Ḥamad, Muḥammad Dīb (Resistance leader); Zaghmūṭ, Ṣāliḥ (Police); Hadar, Levi (Trader); al-Kull, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Trader).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Border guards; British police forces; Damaged weapons; Marriage; Military training; Money; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Rifles; Socio-economic conditions; Syria; Tobacco trade; Traders; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Weapon acquisition

00:36:39 - Political dynamics in Palestine before and after Nakbah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Hadar, Levi (Trader); Ṭāhā, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Qiblāwī, Abū Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, Mūsá (Martyr); Rīmī, Muḥammad Dīb (Resistance Fighter).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; Collaborationists; Economic conditions; Investigation; Lebanon; Military training; Mizrahi Jews; Morocco; Police; Rifles; State of Israel; Syria; Weapon acquisition; Weapon smuggling; al-Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948

00:46:46 - Violence, battles and armed resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Fahd, Kāmil (Resistance leader); al-Hūrānī, Maḥmūd Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); ʻUbayd, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Rīmī, Muḥammad Dīb (Resistance fighter); Nimir, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Atāsī, Jawdat (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Nāsir, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Wounded); Zaghmūṭ, Abū Ṭāha (Wounded); Ismā‘īl, Aḥmad (Missing); Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Missimg); al-‘Awaḍ, Aḥmad (Missing); Ḥasná, Maḥmūd ʻAlī (Missing); Jūkh, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); al-Nimir, Aḥmad(Resistance fighter); Mir‘ī, Ḥasan (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Family reunification; Injuries; Mortars; Neighboring villages; Olive trees; Resistance; Tobacco; Trenches; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine; al-Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

01:06:43 - War time, village occupation and exile

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shraydī, ʻAbd Aḥmad (Martyr); Shraydī, al-ʻAbd Khālid (Martyr); Shraydī, Saʻīd Khālid (Martyr); al-Bayk, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); al-Bayk, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); ‘Alī, Ibrāhīm Maḥmūd (Martyr); ‘Alī, ‘Abdullāh Maḥmūd (Martyr); ‘Azīzah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Shraydī, ‘Azīzah (Martyr); Qiblāwī, Abū Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥajrī, Fāyiq (Martyr); Abū Ṭāhā, Muḥammad (Martyr); Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Nāṣir, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Zaghmūṭ, ‘Abdullāh Muḥammad (Martyr); Nimir, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Kull, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Trader).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Crimes against humanity; Defense; Gaza (Palestine); Homeland; Hope; Mines; Naturalization; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Resistance; Return; Rifles; Seeking refuge; al-Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948