Table of Contents: Interview with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū

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Interview with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū

Biography:	The interview was recorded on November 24, 1998 with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū, male, born in 1922 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a Police officer in the British Police forces during the mandate.
Interviewer:	Abū ʻAlī, Ibtisām
Interviewee:	Hijjū, Aḥmad Faḍīl
Place of Origin:	Lūbyā
In Collection:	POHA, Al-Jana, Biographies Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format:	audio
Duration:	02:11:32
Language:	Arabic
Interview Date:	1998-11-24
Permanent Link:	https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3s911
Subjects:	Police -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Zionist terrorism -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Palestine -- History -- Nakba, 1948. Palestine -- History -- Zionist invasion, 1948. Palestine -- Socio-economic conditions -- 20th century. Agriculture -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- History -- British Mandate, 1922-1948. Palestine -- History -- Arab rebellion, 1936-1939. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Rural conditions -- Palestine -- 20th century. Refugees, Palestinian -- Lebanon -- Social conditions. Battles -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948.
Significant Figures:	ʻAbd al-Qādir, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Shihābī, Yaḥyá Saʻīd (Mayor); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-ʻAṭwāt, Kāmil (Policeman); al-Fawwāz, Ibrāḥīm (Policeman); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Policeman); al-Fayyāḍ, ʻUthmān (Policeman); Ṭabbārah, Anīs (Policeman); Saʻīd, Sulaymān (Policeman); al-Khaḍrah, Aḥmad (Policeman); al-Jayyūsī, Ḥusnī (Lawyer).
Families:	al-Shahāyibah; al-ʻAjāyinah; al-ʻAṭwāt; al-Ḥajājiwah.
Landmarks-Private Institutions:	Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).
Landmarks-Cultural and Touristic Institutions:	Sūq Kafr Yāsīf (Market).
Table of Contents:	Socio-economic conditions and rural life. (@ 00:00:00) Employment in the British police forces. (@ 00:18:14) British Police activity in Palestine. (@ 00:37:54) British police during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 01:04:57) British Police activity and Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 01:29:44) Warfare and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 01:45:44)

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Socio-economic conditions and rural life. (@ 0:00)
Employment in the British police forces. (@ 18:14)
British Police activity in Palestine. (@ 37:54)
British police during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 64:57)
British Police activity and Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 89:44)
Warfare and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 105:44)