Interview with Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥāj Aḥmad

Biography:	The interview was recorded on November 10, 1998 with Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, male, born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked with the British Army.
Interviewer:	al-Wannās, Fāyzah
Interviewee:	al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, Muḥammad Ḥusayn
Place of Origin:	Ṣaffūrīyah
In Collection:	POHA, Al-Jana, Biographies Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format:	audio
Duration:	01:33:29
Language:	Arabic
Interview Date:	1998-11-10
Permanent Link:	https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3gp8p
Subjects:	Palestine -- History -- British Mandate, 1922-1948. Zionists -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- Socio-economic conditions -- 20th century. Agriculture -- Palestine -- 20th century. Palestine -- Zionist colonization -- History -- To 1948. Palestine -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Inheritance and succession -- Palestine. Education -- Palestine -- 20th century. Women, Palestinian -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
Significant Figures:	al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Maw‘id, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); Sulaymān, Abū Fāris (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor); Sa‘d al-Dīn, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Sharīf, Ḥusayn (Shaykh); Yūsuf, Saʻīd (School principal); al-‘Anabtāwī, ‘Abd al-Raḥīm (Teacher); al-Faṭābīl, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥallūmī, Jamīl (Teacher); ‘Arābī, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (Doctor); al-Masrī, ‘Umar (Doctor); Salāmah, Farḥāt (Poet); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmud (Resistance leader); al-Sirrinī, Mifliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Maw‘id, ʻĀṭif (Resistance fighter); al-Maw‘id, ʻĀrif (Resistance fighter); al-‘Abbūshī, Muḥammad (Store keeper).
Families:	Najm; ‘Īsá; Ṭāhā; Sulaymān; al-Khalīl; Bakr; al-‘Allūsh; al-Maw‘id; al-Ḥadāyidah; Ghunaym; al-Maṣāriwah; Abū ‘Awdah; al-Ḥāj Aḥmad; al-Ḥāj As‘ad; al-Jundī; Abū Na‘āj; al-‘Afīfī; ‘Alā’ al-Dīn; Salām; Sursuq; al-Asʻad.
Landmarks-Places of Worship:	Dayr Ḥannā (Convent).
Landmarks-Cultural and Touristic Institutions:	Ḥisbat al-Nāṣirah (Marqet).
Table of Contents:	Socio-economic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 00:00:00) Community and family life in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 00:10:53) Social conditions and health care in Palestine before 1948. (@ 00:22:39) Agriculture and political turmoil. (@ 00:35:34) Military occupation, land defense and Resistance activities. (@ 00:56:25) From agricultural worker to an employee with the British forces. (@ 01:12:44)