Interview with Khalīl Suwaydān

Biography:	The interview was recorded on September 6, 1997 with Khalīl Suwaydān, male, born in 1924?? in al-Buwayzīyah, Palestine.
Interviewer:	Suwayd, Ḥasīb
Interviewee:	Suwaydān, Khalīl
Place of Origin:	al-Buwayzīyah
In Collection:	POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format:	audio
Duration:	02:11:40
Language:	Arabic
Interview Date:	1997-09-06
Permanent Link:	https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3t91b
Subjects:	Agriculture -- Palestine -- 20th century. Land tenure -- Palestine. Palestine -- History -- British Mandate, 1922-1948. Battles -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Revolutionaries -- Political activity -- Palestine -- 20th century. Refugees, Palestinian -- Lebanon -- Social conditions. Refugee camps -- Lebanon -- Social conditions. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Massacres -- Palestine -- 20th century. Zionist terrorism -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Economic sanctions -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948.
Significant Figures:	Suwaydān, Aḥmad al-Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Rmayḥ, Abū al-Naṣr (Resistance fighter); al-Yūsuf, Dīb (Resistance fighter); Suhayl, 'Alī Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-ʻĀbid, Rashīd Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Mughayīb, ʻĪsá (Resistance fighter); Suwaydān, Muḥammad ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); Jum‘ah, Abū Jum‘ah Shihādah (Resistance leader); Shaʻbān, Muḥammad Shiḥādah (Resistance leader); Suwaydān, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); al-Ḥāj Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Maḥmūd, Ḥmayīd (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al- ʻAlī, ʻAlī Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Suwaydān, Aḥmad al-Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Rmayḥ, Abū al-Naṣr (resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ṣubḥ, Nāyif (Governor); Suwaydān, Aḥmad al-Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Dīb, Abū Yūsuf (Martyr); al-‘Alī, Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-‘Abdullāh, Shiḥādah (Resistance fighter); Wansah, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); Rmayh, Abū al-Naṣr (Resistance fighter); Mubārak, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Dāmūnī, Abū Ḥasan (Court witness); al-Naḥfāwī, Ṣāliḥ (Court witness); al-Sharshabīl, Ibrāhīm (Prisoner).
Families:	Shatlah; Jabr; Suwaydān; Francis; Sursuq; Salām.
Landmarks-Lakes, Rivers:	Jabal al-Ṭābighah (Mountain); Wādī al-Ḥujayr (Valley).
Table of Contents:	Village history. (@ 00:00:13) Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 00:09:15) Land defense. (@ 00:29:16) Zionists infiltration and Land appropriation. (@ 00:38:54) Exile from Palestine. (@ 00:50:16) Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 01:11:17) Expulsion, humiliation and isolation. (@ 01:25:35) Palestinian Camps in Lebanon. (@ 01:33:24) Social conditions of the Palestinians in Lebanon. (@ 01:55:59)