Table of Contents: Interview with Aḥmad Krayyim al-Ḥāj

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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.
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:	Palestine -- History -- British Mandate, 1922-1948. Religious pluralism -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- History -- Arab rebellion, 1936-1939. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Agriculture -- Palestine -- 20th century. Education -- Palestine -- 20th century. Manners and customs -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- Socio-economic conditions -- 20th century. War and families -- Palestine -- 20th century. Refugees, Palestinian -- Lebanon -- Social conditions. Palestine -- Zionist colonization -- History -- To 1948. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
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)