Interview with Āminah Muḥammad Qundus مقابلة مع آمنة محمد قندس

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood, and eveyday life during the British rule

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Keywords: Argentina; Believers; British Army; Childbirth; Education; Farmers; Laborers; Land acquisition; Land deeds; Letters; Living conditions; Locust infestation; Means of transportation; Military withdrawal; Nahariya (Palestine); Post offices; Schools; Siblings; Socio-economic conditions; Trains; Water resources; Women in agriculture; al-Zīb (Palestine)

00:16:31 - Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Īsá, Ḥasan (Martyr); Qundus, Khalīl (Martyr); ‘Abdū, Aḥmad (Wounded).

Families: al-Afandī.

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Keywords: Arrest; British Army; British Government; British army camps; British-Jewish relations; Dietary practices; Famine; Girls; Land appropriation; Lebanon; Martyrs; Mines; Prisons; Railways; Tanks; Trains; al-Zīb (Palestine); al-Zīb Massacre, 1947

00:28:25 - Political clashes during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Families: ‘Aṭāyā; Qiblāwī.

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Keywords: Attacks; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British-Jewish relations; Collaborationists; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Dynamite; Expulsion; Fishing; House raid; Jewish immigrants; Land partition; Mayors; Military withdrawal; Protests against occupation; Revolutionaries; Rural areas; Settler colonialism; Slogans; Village leaders; Weapon acquisition; West Bank; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:37:17 - Interreligious relations and military attacks

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Qundus, Khalīl (Martyr); al-Rā‘ī, Ḥasan (Martyr).

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Keywords: Burial; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Executions; Interreligious marriage; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Massacres; Mayors; Medical doctors; Midwives; Nahariya (Palestine); Orchards; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Religion; Trade; Trucks

00:47:41 - Violence, resistance during the Zionist colonization

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rā‘ī, Ḥasan (Martyr).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian measures; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Dynamite; Executions; Fishermen; Guards; Identity cards; Jewish immigrants; Nahariya (Palestine); Seeking shelter; Settler colonialism; Ships; Weapons; al-Baṣṣah (Palestine)

01:02:42 - Economic conditions in the village during the British Mandate

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣaqlāwī (Fisherman).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Boats; British-Jewish relations; Caves; Competitiveness; Dynamite; Fishermen; Fishing; Grooms; Haifa (Palestine); Identity cards; Jewish immigrants; Mosques; Nahariya (Palestine); Olive Oil; Personal belongings; Radio stations; Religious belief; Return; Ships; Swimming; Sūq; Trade; Wedding celebration; Women; World War, 1939-1945; al-Zīb (Palestine)

01:24:10 - Village occupation, displacement and exile

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Bas‘ad, ‘Alī (Martyr).

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Keywords: Boats; Dynamite; Emotions; Evacuation; Executions; Expulsion from Palestine; Lebanon; Mayors; Nostalgia; Olive trees; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Personal belongings; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Return; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Rashīdīyah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); al-Zīb Massacre, 1947