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. |
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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: | |
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) |
Table of Contents:
- Socio-economic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 0:00)
- Community and family life in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 10:53)
- Social conditions and health care in Palestine before 1948. (@ 22:39)
- Agriculture and political turmoil. (@ 35:34)
- Military occupation, land defense and Resistance activities. (@ 56:25)
- From agricultural worker to an employee with the British forces. (@ 72:44)