Interview with Renée Kuttih مقابلة مع رينيه كته

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Kuttih, Costandi (Mayor); Kuttih, Georges (Pharmacist); Kuttih, Ḥannah (Doctor); Qutrān, Michel (Chief justice); Bishārah, Sāmī (Doctor).

Families: al-Ghuṣaynī; Abū al-Laban; al-Khayrī; al-Tāj; al-Fārūqī; Qutrān.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Madrasat al- Ingliz (School); Sharikat Bāṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Spinneys (Corporation); American University of Beirut (University).

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Keywords: Boarding schools; Businesses; Ceremonies; Childhood; Education; Family structure; Illness; Interreligious relations; Jerusalem (Palestine); Land ownership; Marriage; Ramallah (Palestine); Social norms; Socio-economic conditions; Trade; Women education

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shaṭārah, Wadī‘ah (Teacher); Ḥannūsh, Victoria (School principal); Kuttih, Alex (Pharmacist).

Families: al-Ghuṣaynī; Abū al-Laban.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Friends Girls School (School).

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Keywords: Agricultural prosperity; Boarding schools; Building practices; Buses; Chores; Christian holidays; Cities and towns; Clothing and dresses; Conduct of life; Dwellings; Education; Family relations; Generosity; Handicrafts; Hospitality; Interpersonal relations; Pre-Nakba life; Ramallah (Palestine); Return; Schools; Settler colonialism; Social classes; Socio-economic conditions; Stoves; Sūq; Traders; Values; Women education

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Aṣāṣah, Ḥikmat (Landlord).

Families: al-‘Azūnī; al-Ṣūṣū; Naṣṣār.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Spinneys (Corporation); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).

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Keywords: Bridal customs; Chocolate industry; Condolences; Conduct of life; Curfew; Decoration; Dwellings; Egypt; Engagement; Family relations; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Grandfathers; Haifa (Palestine); Jewels; Landowners; Letters; Marriage proposals; Means of transportation; Palestinian Orthodox Clubs; Passports; Social norms; Telephone; Travel; Wedding preparations; Weddings

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Keywords: Bridal customs; Decoration; Desserts; Europe; Faysal II, King of Iraq, 1935-1958; Gifts; Haifa (Palestine); Homecoming; Means of transportation; Miscarriages; Photographs; Ramallah (Palestine); Ships; Switzerland; Telephone; Travel; Wahbī, Yūsuf, 1898-1982; Wedding Customs; Wedding celebration

Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Spinneys (Corporation); Sharikat Baṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation).

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Keywords: Airplanes; Bombings; Buses; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Dispersion; Expulsion from Palestine; Haifa (Palestine); Passports; Psychological warfare; Ramallah (Palestine); Telephone; Zionist Invasion of Palestine,1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Bshārah, Sāmī (Doctor); ‘Aṣāṣah, Ḥikmat (Landlord).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-‘Askarī (Hospital).

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Keywords: Airplanes; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; European Jewish Immigration; Expulsion from Palestine; Handicrafts; Jewish neighbors; Land sale; News; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Settler colonialism; Wedding presents

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Keywords: Bombings; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Despair; Evacuation; Expulsion from Palestine; Holy land; Jewish settlements; Killing; Land sale; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Ramallah (Palestine); Settler colonialism; Treason; Weapon smuggling; Zionist occupation; al-Lidd (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Spinneys (Corporation).

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Keywords: Airplanes; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Conduct of life; Currency convertibility; Death; Expulsion from Palestine; Propaganda; Ships; al-Lidd (Palestine)

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Dwellings; Economic prosperity; European Jewish Immigration; Farm animals; Interreligious relations; Jaffa oranges; Naturalization; Orchards; Pre-Nakba life; Return; Settler colonialism; Uncles

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fī‘ānī, Georges (Businessman).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Spinneys (Corporation); Sharika al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).

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Keywords: Boarding schools; Childhood memories; Conduct of life; Family relations; Haifa (Palestine); Palestinian Orthodox Clubs; Photographs; Ramallah (Palestine); al-Ramlah (Palestine)