Interview with Yāsīn al-Ḥāj

Biography:	The interview was recorded on December 7, 1998 with Yāsīn al-Ḥāj, male, born in 1924 in Kafr ʻAnān, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a policeman.
Interviewer:	al-Maṣrī, Muḥammad
Interviewee:	al-Ḥāj, Yāsīn
Place of Origin:	Kafr ʻAnān (Palestine)
In Collection:	POHA, Al-Jana, Biographies Collection
Interview Audio/Video:
Format:	audio
Duration:	02:21:31
Language:	Arabic
Interview Date:	1998-12-07
Permanent Link:	https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3bs73
Subjects:	Palestine -- Socio-economic conditions -- 20th century. Akka prison (Palestine). Agriculture -- Palestine -- 20th century. Professions -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Meat industry and trade -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Palestine -- Zionist colonization -- History -- To 1948. Palestine -- History -- Nakba, 1948. Palestine -- History -- Zionist invasion, 1948. Expulsion -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Palestine -- History -- British Mandate, 1922-1948. Prisoners -- Palestine -- 20th century. Human rights -- Palestine -- 20th century. Zionist settlement -- Palestine -- History -- To 1948.
Significant Figures:	Sa‘d, Fu'ād (Landowner); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad (Jailer); al-‘Alī, Salīm Mūsá (Jailer); al-‘Akkī, Aḥmad (Judge); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad (Judge); Salīm, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Prisoner); Ṭabarī, Ṣidqī (Resistance leadrer); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Khalīl, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Resistance leader); al-ʻAlī, Salīm Mūsá (Policeman); Ṭāhā, Muḥammad (Policeman); al-ʻAlī, Jamīl Mūsá (Policeman); al-Mūsá, Alī (Policeman).
Families:	Khashshān; Manṣūr.
Landmarks-Places of Worship:	Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); al-Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).
Landmarks-Private Institutions:	Mustashfá al-Quds (Hospital).
Landmarks-Lakes, Rivers:	Jabal al-Nabī Mūsá (Mountain).
Table of Contents:	Agriculture and everyday life. (@ 00:00:00) Economic conditions in Kafr ʻAnān. (@ 00:22:3) Professions and economic conditions in the village. (@ 00:33:46) Prisons and prisoners during the British rule. (@ 00:44:6) Prisoners conditions situation in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 01:07:1) Socio-political conditions in Jerusalem. (@ 01:27:47) War time and military occupation. (@ 01:46:7) Working with the British police forces. (@ 02:02:11)