Interview with Aḥmad Shiḥādah Falāḥ

Biography: The interview was recorded on June 27, 1997 with Aḥmad Shiḥādah Falāḥ, male, born in 1918 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.
Interviewer: Jumʻah, Muḥammad
ʻAwaḍ, Walīd
Interviewee: Falāḥ, Aḥmad Shiḥādah
Place of Origin: Umm al-Faraj
In Collection: POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format: audio
Duration: 01:32:42
Language: Arabic
Interview Date: 1997-06-27
Permanent Link: https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3790p
Subjects:
Significant Figures:
al-ʻAdawī, Ḥasan (Landowner); Abū al-Saʻd, Ḥusayn (Landowner); al-Ḥallāq, Aḥmad (Landowner); Zamzam, Asʻad (Landowner); al-Quṭṭ, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAkkī, Ibrāhīm (Landowner); Barakah, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Ḥamādah, Kāmil (Mayor).
Families:
al-Quṭṭ; al-ʻArīq; ʻAlī Sālim; Ḥāj Mūsá; al-Ḥāj ʻAlī; Sursuq; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl; Aṣlān.
Table of Contents: Community life in pre-Nakba Palestine and expulsion. (@ 00:00:00)
Settler colonialism, childhood memories, and education. (@ 00:10:38)
Battles and the Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 00:26:17)
Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 00:50:19)
Refugee experience in exile. (@ 01:11:2)
Table of Contents:
  • Community life in pre-Nakba Palestine and expulsion . (@ 0:00)
  • Settler colonialism, childhood memories, and education. (@ 10:38)
  • Battles and the Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 26:17)
  • Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 50:19)
  • Refugee experience in exile . (@ 71:2)