Interview with Renée Kuttih

Biography:	The interview was recorded on August 17, 2011 with Renée Kuttih, female, born in 1925 in al-Ramlah, Palestine.
Interviewer:	Zaydān, Maḥmūd
Interviewee:	Kuttih, Renée
Place of Origin:	al-Ramlah
In Collection:	POHA, Al-Nakba Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format:	video
Duration:	02:30:19
Language:	Arabic
Interview Date:	2011-08-17
Permanent Link:	https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3tp5n
Subjects:	Palestine -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Social classes -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- History -- British Mandate, 1922-1948. War and families -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- History -- Zionist invasion, 1948. Refugees, Palestinian -- Lebanon -- Social conditions. Palestine -- Socio-economic conditions -- 20th century. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Education -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- History -- Nakba, 1948. Palestine -- Description and travel. Religious pluralism -- Palestine -- 20th century.
Significant Figures:	Kuttih, Costandi (Mayor); Kuttih, Georges (Pharmacist); Kuttih, Ḥannah (Doctor); Qutrān, Michel (Chief justice); Bishārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Shaṭārah, Wadī‘ah (Teacher); Ḥannūsh, Victoria (School principal); Kuttih, Alex (Pharmacist); ‘Aṣāṣah, Ḥikmat (Landlord); Bshārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Fī‘ānī, Georges (Businessman).
Families:	al-Ghuṣaynī; Abū al-Laban; al-Khayrī; al-Tāj; al-Fārūqī; Qutrān; al-‘Azūnī; al-Ṣūṣū; Naṣṣār.
Landmarks-Public Institutions:	al-Mustashfá al-‘Askarī (Hospital).
Landmarks-Private Institutions:	Madrasat al- Ingliz (School); Sharikat Bāṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Spinneys (Corporation); American University of Beirut (University); Friends Girls School (School); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation); Sharikat Baṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Sharika al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).
Table of Contents:	Socio-economic Life in the city. (@ 00:00:00) Pre-marital Life,Village Traditions and Schooling. (@ 00:14:39) Engagement, Marriage and Family Life. (@ 00:40:45) Wedding celebration and honeymoon in Europe. (@ 01:03:16) Political turmoil and displacement. (@ 01:19:44) Relations with the Jews. (@ 01:27:43) Land Ownership and attacks. (@ 01:38:10) Expulsion from Palestine and life in exile. (@ 01:44:48) Return to Palestine and life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 01:56:34) Childhood and other Personal Memories. (@ 02:09:3)