Interview with Aḥmad Krayyim al-Ḥāj
Biography: | The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Aḥmad Krayyim al-Ḥāj, male, born in 1925 in ʻAlmā, Palestine. He worked as a policeman with the British Army. |
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Interviewer: | ʻUmar, ʻAbīr |
Interviewee: | al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad Krayyim |
Place of Origin: | ʻAlmā |
In Collection: | POHA, Al-Nakba Collection |
Interview Audio/Video: | |
Format: | video |
Duration: | 01:13:30 |
Language: | Arabic |
Interview Date: | 2004-04-16 |
Permanent Link: | https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3ck6z |
Subjects: | |
Significant Figures: | al-Fāḥūm, Ziyād (Teacher); ʻAbdullāh, Amīn (Teacher); Mūsá, Aḥmad ʻUmar (Teacher); al-Mukaḥḥal, Sha‘bān (Policeman); al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad Ḥusayn (Teacher); Ḥusayn ʻᾹqil (Poet); Saʻīd, Aḥmad (Mayor); Farḥāt Sallām (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Shaʻbī, Abū Khalīl (Poet); ʻᾹqil, Ḥusayn (Poet); Sulaymān, Aḥmad Saʻīd (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥāt (Poet); Mall, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander). |
Families: | al-Ḥāj; al-ʻAjjāwī; Shaḥrūr; al-Zaghmūṭ; Zaghmūṭ. |
Landmarks-Places of Worship: | Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Yaʻqūb (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūsuf (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque). |
Landmarks-Private Institutions: | Keren Kayemeth (Corporation); British Bank (Bank). |
Table of Contents: |
Education and Employment during the British Mandate. (@ 00:00:00) Social life in ʻAlmā. (@ 00:17:19) Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 00:31:52) Political turmoil and the popular resistance. (@ 00:38:32) Expulsion and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 00:54:24) Exile and hope of return. (@ 01:06:46) |
Table of Contents:
- Education and Employment during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)
- Social life in ʻAlmā. (@ 17:19)
- Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 31:52)
- Political turmoil and the popular resistance. (@ 38:32)
- Expulsion and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 54:24)
- Exile and hope of return. (@ 66:46)