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:
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)

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