Nakba #26 - Assad Ammya
“We lived in a small house on Mount Carmel. It was a mixed area with Muslims and Jews. My father worked at a cigarette factory and also sold olive oil. My brother started working at Spinneys supermark...
31 Dec 202539min
Nakba #25 - Abdullah Taleb El Salhane
“My father was a farmer. He grew, among other things, potatoes and tomatoes. I used to tend his sheep.” - What do you remember of your home village? “Your question is wrongly put. You should ask who k...
31 Dec 202544min
Nakba #24 - Safia Mohammad Alawis
1947 “Near us was the Jewish village of Nesher. They visited our olive groves and we visited their homes. We were almost like siblings.”
31 Dec 202558min
Nakba #23 - Khalid Jameel Saed Mosmar
1948 “Men, women, children, and the elderly arrived in Nablus by truck. They had been expelled from villages and towns in the surrounding area. The refugees were housed in a school. Inside, many famil...
31 Dec 20251h 14min
Nakba #22 - Mahmud Khalil ‘Abdallatif
1946 “I grew up in Akka. We had a shop where my father sold timber. I was part of a scout band that played music in the streets. When we passed by my father’s shop, he would come out and watch. When h...
31 Dec 202558min
Nakba #21- Hisen Farea al-Sabour
1936 “I don’t know exactly what year I was born. We didn’t use dates or years. We were illiterate. We used to say that someone was born the same year someone else died.” 1940 “My mother died when I wa...
31 Dec 20251h
Nakba #20 - Lee Mahmud Musa
1943 “My father was a simple man who worked in all kinds of construction jobs. He was the kindest person in the world. Every time my mother chased us, he yelled at her. My father also had a cart from ...
31 Dec 20251h 17min
Nakba #19 - Kazim al Zu‘ubi
1943 “Palestinian Jews and Arabs lived side by side, like one family. Arabs married Jews and Jews married Arabs. They were our friends, our relatives—we protected them.”
30 Dec 202555min
