Interview with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah

Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 2003 with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah, male, born in 1929 in Akka, Palestine. He was an Arab Salvation Army commander.
Interviewer: Zaydān, Maḥmūd
Interviewee: Abū Raqabah, Muḥammad
Place of Origin: Akka
In Collection: POHA, Al-Nakba Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format: video
Duration: 01:21:18
Language: Arabic
Interview Date: 2003-11-12
Permanent Link: https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3s90n
Subjects:
Significant Figures:
al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor); al-ʻĪd, Sāmī (School principal); al-Naḥawī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥassūn, ʻAbdullāh (Teacher); Ṭūqān, Qadrī (Teacher); al-ʻAmad, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Jālī, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Bushnāq, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Tawfīq, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Budayrī, Muṣbāḥ (Resistance fighter); Ḥaddād, ʻUthmān Jaʻfar (Resistance fighter); al-Khālidī, Ḥāzim (Officer); ʻAlī, Mufliḥ (Teacher); al-Hāshim, Ṭāhā (Arab Salvation Army commander); Salāmah, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ḥnayṭī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Lababīdī, Rafīq (Teacher); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Ṭabarī, Mūsá (Shaykh); Shuqayr, Shawkat (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jarbūʻ, Rashīd (Prisoner); al-ʻAẓm, Hishām (Prisoner).
Families:
Ṭūqān; Shaqʻah; Nābulsī.
Landmarks-Places of Worship:
Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Dayr al-Lātīn (Convent); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).
Landmarks-Private Institutions:
Latin School (School); Kullīyat al-Najāḥ al-Waṭanī (School); al-Madrasah al-Ahlīyah al-Thānawīyah (School).
Landmarks-Cultural and Touristic Institutions:
Ḥisbat Akka (Market); Qahwat Abū Raqabah (Coffeehouse).
Table of Contents: Ceremonies and community life in Akka. (@ 00:00:00)
Education and political life. (@ 00:10:20)
Military occupation and exile. (@ 00:37:32)
Zionist occupation of Akka, 1948 and imprisonment. (@ 00:54:58)
Death of Amīn al-Ḥusaynī and final reflections. (@ 01:12:7)

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