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. |
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| 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: | |
| 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) |
Table of Contents:
- Early life: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 0:29)
- Village description and Zionist infiltration . (@ 15:47)
- Folk traditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:7)
- Rural life and childhood memories. (@ 49:52)
- War time and military occupation. (@ 62:42)
- Forced departure from Qaddītā in 1948. (@ 75:7)
- Exile and refugee life. (@ 80:5)
- Cultural activities for Palestine in Exile. (@ 93:37)
- Palestinian handicrafts . (@ 117:40)
- Palestinian documents collections. (@ 146:15)
- Palestinian heritage equal to the Palestinian national identity. (@ 159:7)
- Heritage and identity . (@ 182:38)
- Conservation of the Palestinian cultural heritage. (@ 208:50)
- The Palestinian cultural identity. (@ 231:34)
- Revisiting Palestine. (@ 249:3)
- Family, land and childhood memories in occupied Palestine. (@ 265:35)
- Cities and villages under Israeli occupation. (@ 279:14)
- Collecting old remains from his destroyed village. (@ 297:43)
- Heritage theft. (@ 316:53)
- Palestinians under Israeli occupation. (@ 327:0)
- Palestinians in Israel, segregation and discrimination. (@ 347:17)
- Nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 361:38)