Interview with Aḥmad Maḥmūd Karbūn

Biography:	The interview was recorded on May 6, 1997 with Aḥmad Maḥmūd Karbūn, male, born in 1924 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.
Interviewer:	Suwayd, Ḥasīb
Interviewee:	Karbūn, Aḥmad Maḥmūd
Place of Origin:	Haifa
In Collection:	POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format:	audio
Duration:	01:30:45
Language:	Arabic
Interview Date:	1997-05-06
Permanent Link:	https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3z338
Subjects:	Battles -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Revolutionaries -- Palestine -- Attitudes -- 20th century. Palestine -- History -- Zionist invasion, 1948. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. War and families -- Palestine -- 20th century. Refugee camps -- Lebanon -- Social conditions. Refugees, Palestinian -- Lebanon -- Social conditions. Arab countries -- Foreign relations -- Palestine. Palestine -- Foreign relations -- Arab countries. Palestinian diaspora. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Palestine -- History -- British Mandate, 1922-1948. Palestine -- History -- Nakba, 1948.
Significant Figures:	Naffā‘, Yūnus (Leader); Nāyif, Aḥmad (Officer); Basṭah, Ḥalīm (Officer); al-Bard, Fakhrī (Resistance leader); al-Ḥamad, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Srūr, Fahd (Resistance leader); al-Quzuq, ʻAbd al-ʻĀl (Resistance leader); Ṭāhā , Khalīl (Leader); Ṭāhā , Muḥammad Khalīl (Doctor); Naffā‘, Yūnūs (Resistance leader); ‘Awdah, Abū Ṭāriq (Resistance leader); Abū Hārūn, Tawfīq (Artist); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Rashīd (Resistance leader); Dallūl, Abū ‘Alī (Resistance leader); al-Hāshimī, Ṭāhā(Resistance leader); Srūr, Jamāl (Resistance fighter); Karbūn, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Nabahānī, Muḥammad Khayr (Camp leader); Ṣawwān, Jum‘ah (Camp leader); Bākīr, Abū Salīm (Camp leader); al- Nāẓir, Ṣalāḥ (Camp leader); al-Ṣalāḥī, Muḥammad (Camp leader); Sirḥān, Fāris (Camp leader); ‘Abd al-Majīd, Ibrāhīm (camp leader); al-Najim, Mūsá (Camp leader).
Families:	Sursuq; Salām; al-Ni‘mānī; al-Shahāl; al-Ḍinnāwī.
Landmarks-Places of Worship:	Jāmiʻ al-Jraynī (Mosque); Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Jraynī (Mosque).
Landmarks-Cultural and Touristic Institutions:	Ḥisbat Haifa (Market); Qahwat al-Karmilīt (Coffeehouse); al-Jāmiʻah al-Nabulsīyah (ِAssociation).
Table of Contents:	Political turmoil and forced departure from Palestine. (@ 00:00:00) Palestinian popular resistance and political leadership. (@ 00:07:40) Land, defense and revolutionaries. (@ 00:16:20) War time and military occupation. (@ 00:25:12) Forced departure from Palestine. (@ 00:30:40) Zionist occupation of Haifa. (@ 00:41:1) Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 00:48:0) Exile and immigration. (@ 00:59:13) Refugees : perspectives on the experience of forced migration. (@ 01:11:10)