Interview with Saʻīd Ismāʻīl al-Uṭruq

Biography:	The interview was recorded on June 22, 2003 with Saʻīd Ismāʻī al-Uṭruq, male, born in 1922 in Akka, Palestine. He was a fisherman.
Interviewee:	al-Uṭruq, Saʻīd Ismāʻīl
Place of Origin:	Akka
In Collection:	POHA, Al-Nakba Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format:	video
Duration:	01:23:26
Language:	Arabic
Interview Date:	2003-06-22
Permanent Link:	https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3zw36
Subjects:	Palestine -- Commerce -- History -- 20th century. Palestine -- Foreign economic relations -- Arab countries. Palestine -- History -- Arab rebellion, 1936-1939. Arab countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Palestine. Fishing -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- Zionist colonization -- History -- To 1948. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Education -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Traditional medicine -- Palestine -- 20th century. Revolutionaries -- Political activity -- Palestine -- 20th century. Propaganda, Zionist -- Palestine. Battles -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Refugees, Palestinian -- Lebanon -- Social conditions. Palestine -- History -- Nakba, 1948. Palestine -- History -- Zionist invasion, 1948.
Significant Figures:	al-Amīn, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ziyādah, Nicolas (Teacher); al-Ṣīdāwī, Anīs (Principal); al-Bilbāsī, Sārī ʻĪsá (Wedding planner); Qaṭrān, Na‘īm (Doctor); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Anstas, Ḥannā (Doctor); Ḥijāzī, ‘Abdullāh (Barber); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Barād‘ī, Abū Shukur (Mayor); ‘Abdū, Aḥmad (Municipal council); al-Idilbī, Aḥmad (Municipal council ); Makāwī, Ḥasan (Policeman); al-Dūkhī, Ṣaliḥ (Revolutionary); al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); Abū Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaghīr (Revolutionary leader); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Shukrī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter).
Families:	Qiblāwī; Ṣāliḥ Aghā; al-Akkī; al-Nashāshībī; al-Amīn.
Landmarks-Places of Worship:	al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).
Landmarks-Public Institutions:	Sarāyā Abdullāh Pasha (Hospital); Madrasat al-Aḥmadīyah (School); Haifa port (Port).
Landmarks-Private Institutions:	‘Umar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Scouts (Club).
Landmarks-Cultural and Touristic Institutions:	al-Burj (Cinema); al-Ahlī (Cinema); Ḥammām al-Bāshā (Public bath).
Landmarks-Lakes, Rivers:	Būstān al-Bahjah (Orchard).
Table of Contents:	Education, employment and daily life in Akka pre-Nakba. (@ 00:00:00) Communal celebrations. (@ 00:09:47) Economic conditions in Akka. (@ 00:14:56) Medical care and community life in Akka. (@ 00:20:2) Sociopolitical conditions in Akka. (@ 00:28:51) Propaganda and society. (@ 00:45:59) Akka amidst the 1948 Nakba. (@ 01:01:42) Exile and arrival to Beirut. (@ 01:08:39)