Holdings: Interview with Maḥmūd Yūsuf Dakwar

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Interview with Maḥmūd Yūsuf Dakwar

Biography:	The interview was recorded on November 17, 1998 with Maḥmūd Yūsuf Dakwar, male, born in 1937 in Qaddītā, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He was an anthropologist.
Interviewer:	Abū Hawwāsh, Jābir
Interviewee:	Dakwar, Maḥmūd Yūsuf
Place of Origin:	Qaddītā
In Collection:	POHA, Al-Jana, Biographies Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format:	audio
Duration:	06:23:32
Language:	Arabic
Interview Date:	1998-11-17
Permanent Link:	https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3s62c
Subjects:	Cultural property -- Protection -- Palestine. Collective memory -- Palestine. Palestinian diaspora. Palestine -- Description and travel. Cities and towns -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Palestine -- History -- Nakba, 1948. Palestinians -- Attitudes. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Education -- Palestine -- 20th century. Rural conditions -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- History -- British Mandate, 1922-1948. Palestine -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Zionist settlement -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Palestine -- Zionist colonization -- History -- To 1948. Palestine -- History -- Zionist invasion, 1948. War and families -- Palestine -- 20th century. Zionist terrorism -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948. Propaganda, Zionist -- Palestine. Refugees, Palestinian -- Lebanon -- Social conditions. Palestinians -- Israel -- Politics and government.
Significant Figures:	Zaʻrūrah, Abū 'Alī (Resistance fighter); Rāḍī, Sharīf (Resistance fighter); Shūmān, Aḥmad (Leader); Nuwayhiḍ, Bayān (Professor); Atanas, ʻAql (Priest); Ghaṭṭās, Ghaṭṭās (School principal); ‘Abdūshah, Laṭīf (Teacher); ‘Arrāf, Shukrī (Writer).
Families:	Ḥlayḥil; Dakwar.
Landmarks-Places of Worship:	Elias Church (Church); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church); Masjid al- Ṣakhrah (Mosque).
Landmarks-Cultural and Touristic Institutions:	Damascus International Fair (Exhibition); Markaz Maʻrūf Saʻd al-Thaqāfī (Cultural center); Institute for Palestine Studies (Cultural center); Jāmi‘at Bi'r Zayt (University); Damascus international fair (Exhibition); Sūq al-Khamīls fi Bi’r al-Sabʻ (Market).
Landmarks-Lakes, Rivers:	Birkat Qaddītā (Water resource).
Table of Contents:	Early life: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 00:00:29) Village description and Zionist infiltration. (@ 00:15:47) Folk traditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 00:31:7) Rural life and childhood memories. (@ 00:49:52) War time and military occupation. (@ 01:02:42) Forced departure from Qaddītā in 1948. (@ 01:15:7) Exile and refugee life. (@ 01:20:5) Cultural activities for Palestine in Exile. (@ 01:33:37) Palestinian handicrafts. (@ 01:57:40) Palestinian documents collections. (@ 02:26:15) Palestinian heritage equal to the Palestinian national identity. (@ 02:39:7) Heritage and identity. (@ 03:02:38) Conservation of the Palestinian cultural heritage. (@ 03:28:50) The Palestinian cultural identity. (@ 03:51:34) Revisiting Palestine. (@ 04:09:3) Family, land and childhood memories in occupied Palestine. (@ 04:25:35) Cities and villages under Israeli occupation. (@ 04:39:14) Collecting old remains from his destroyed village. (@ 04:57:43) Heritage theft. (@ 05:16:53) Palestinians under Israeli occupation. (@ 05:27:0) Palestinians in Israel, segregation and discrimination. (@ 05:47:17) Nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 06:01:38)

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