Interview with Nicolas ‘Abdū Ziyādah
| Biography: | The interview was recorded on January 29, 2004 with Nicolas ‘Abdū Ziyādah, male, born in 1907 in Damascus, Syria. He was a professor at al-Kulliyah al-Rashīdīyah, al-Kulliyah al-‘Arabīyah and the American University of Beirut, then a historian. |
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| Interviewer: | Zaydān, Maḥmūd |
| Interviewee: | Ziyādah, Nicolas ‘Abdū |
| Place of Origin: | Jerusalem |
| In Collection: | POHA, Al-Nakba Collection |
| Interview Audio/Video: | |
| Format: | video |
| Duration: | 06:14:11 |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Interview Date: | 2004-01-29 |
| Permanent Link: | https://n2t.net/ark:/86073/b3w60j |
| Subjects: | |
| Significant Figures: | al-Khālidī, Adīb (Muftī); al-Muqdādī, Darwīsh (School principal); Shiḥādah, Būlus (Journalist); Ḥaddād, Ilyās Naṣr Allāh (Teacher); al-Shuqayrī, Asʻad (Shaykh); Mukhliṣ, ʻAbdullāh (Historian); al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor); Farrel, Jerome (Public officer); al-Fāhūm, Badr (Buisnessman); Manṣūr, George (Communist); Hūrānī, George (Writer); ‘Arafāt, Ḥasan (School principal); Haycraft, Thomas (Chief Justice); Khalīfah, Aḥmad (Public officer); Yāsīn, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (News presenter); al-Ghuṣayn, Muḥammad (Radio presenter); Shammā, Munīr (Radio presenter); al-Khālidī, Aḥmad Sāmih (College director); Ḥasan, Ḥasan Ibrāhīm (Historian); al-Saqqāf, Aḥmad (Public officer); ʻĀkif, Aḥmad Zakī (Chemist); al-ʻAskarī, Sulaymān (Editor in Chief); Baydas, Muḥammad (School principal); Jubrān, Būlus (Teacher); Shrayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Tāzī, ʻAbd al-Hādī (Writer); Jār Allāh, Ḥusam al-Dīn (Muftī); al-Ṣīdāwī, Anīs (School principal); Saʻīd, Būlus (Bookstore owner); ʻAṭallāh, ʻĪsá (School principal); Khamīs, Georges (Teacher); Ḥaddād, Iskandar (Priest); Ḥūrānī, Georges (Professor); Ziyādah, Muṣṭafá (Author); Ḥasan, Ḥasan Muḥammad (Historian); al-Zayyāt, Aḥmad Ḥasan (Editor in chief); al-‘Alī, Ṣaliḥ (Professor). |
| Landmarks-Public Institutions: | Dār al-Muʻalimīn (School); al-Kullīyah al-Rashīdīyah (College); Idārat al-Ma‘ārif (Ministry); al-Kullīyah al-‘Arabīyah (College); Wizātrat al-Musta‘marāt (Ministry); Dār al-Mu‘allimīn (School); Idārat al-Maʻārif (Ministry); Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School). |
| Landmarks-Private Institutions: | Dār al-Aytām al-Sūrīyah (School); al-Mustashfá al-ʻAskarī al-Almānī (Hospital); al-Maktabah al-Khālidīyah (Library); Schneller School (School); Schmidt School (School); Maktabat Filaṣtīn al-ʻIlmīyah (Bookstore); Mrs Robertson School (School); al-Najāḥ School (School); Rawḍat al-Ma‘ārif (School); Frères School (School); American University of Beirut (University); Cliff Hotel (Hotel); al-Madrasah al-Dustūrīyah (School). |
| Landmarks-Cultural and Touristic Institutions: | Cinema al-Quds al-Kabīr (Cinema); University of Cambridge (University); al-Kullīyah al-ʻArabīyah (College); Naṣṣār Hotel (Hotel); Maktabat Filasṭīn al-ʻIlmīyah (Bookstore); al-Kullīyah al-Rashīdīyah (College); al-Kullīyah al-‘Arabīyah (College); Bristol cafe (Coffeehouse). |
| Table of Contents: |
Family history and early life in Damascus. (@ 00:00:20) Early life in Palestine. (@ 00:20:2) Education in Jerusalem. (@ 00:47:39) Employment in Akka. (@ 01:06:27) Receiving educational grant and traveling to London. (@ 01:23:17) Educational experience at London University. (@ 01:50:18) Cultural experience in Germany. (@ 02:11:16) London Roundtable Conference, 1939. (@ 02:40:9) Schools and colleges in Palestine. (@ 03:08:12) United Nation and the Palestinian cause. (@ 03:21:51) Arab armies and Israeli occupation. (@ 03:36:57) Intellectual life in Jerusalem. (@ 03:53:18) Working in Arabic Radio stations. (@ 04:14:41) Arabic Radio stations. (@ 04:28:19) Intellectual life in Palestine and exile. (@ 04:39:8) Study and teaching in Palestine during the British Mandate. (@ 04:57:29) Renaissance of Palestine and Arab countries. (@ 05:13:5) Culture and politics in the Arab world. (@ 05:30:12) The meeting with the president Bashār al-Assad. (@ 05:42:25) |
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