Interview with Ḥafīẓah Qāsim Aḥmad
Biography: | The interview was recorded on December 7, 1998 with Ḥafīẓah Qāsim Aḥmad, female, born in 1917 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She worked as a tailor. |
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Interviewer: | ‘Abd al-‘Āl, Khadījah |
Interviewee: | Aḥmad, Ḥafīẓah Qāsim |
Place of Origin: | Dayr al-Asad |
In Collection: | POHA, Al-Jana, Biographies Collection |
Interview Audio/Video: | |
Format: | audio |
Duration: | 01:31:13 |
Language: | Arabic |
Interview Date: | 1998-12-07 |
Permanent Link: | https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3v33b |
Subjects: | |
Significant Figures: | al-Dhabbāḥ, Fāṭimah (Tailor); al-Shaykh, ‘Alī (Shop owner); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd Sa‘īd (Mayor); Balṭajī, Umm Ḥasan (Derssmaker). |
Families: | Dhabbāḥ; al-Khaṭīb; al-Mūsá; Ṣunʻ Allāh; al-Muzayyan; Badrān; al-Dhabāḥ. |
Landmarks-Places of Worship: | Maqām Al-Khiḍir (Maqām). |
Landmarks-Cultural and Touristic Institutions: | Sūq al-Nuḥās (Market). |
Table of Contents: |
Socio-economic life and sewing. (@ 00:00:00) Sewing and bridal trousseau. (@ 00:29:58) Sewing tools and socio-economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 00:46:45) Refugee experience and education in exile. (@ 00:55:26) Sewing profession Post-Nakba and refugee life. (@ 01:04:35) |