Nakba #46 - Jamil Jalal ‘Aql
1936 “There were about 2,500 people living in my village. In 1936, the same year I was born, a general strike took place. It lasted for half a year. It was the longest strike in the history of Palesti...
8 Jan 51min
Nakba #45 - Widad Kawar
1937 The family settled in Bayt Lahm. I started at a new boarding school, this time in Ramallah. It was run by the Quakers, and I felt very much at home there. In Ramallah, all women wore beautifully ...
8 Jan 59min
Nakba #44 - Nada ‘Ubayd
1949 “A voice over a loudspeaker announced that we were forced to leave al-Tayyibah, but that we would be allowed to return after a couple of days. I lost my clothes, books, and toys. Some people who ...
8 Jan 35min
Nakba #43 - Abd al-Mannan Hassan Shbayta
1945 “My father died when I was three. I remember two things about him; I remember riding behind him on the donkey. And I remember him lying dead on a mattress.” 1948 “We passed a field of cucumbers a...
8 Jan 44min
Nakba #42 - Safia Hassan Shbayta
1930 “We owned 20 hectares of land and lived a good life. My father had six employees working in the fields. We grew cucumbers, tomatoes, wheat, corn, and other crops. We transported the produce to th...
7 Jan 59min
Nakba #41 - Lubna Alian al-Hissi
”My parents lived in Hiribya. Two of my paternal uncles took part in the resistance when the Israelis attacked in 1948. One of my uncles was surrounded by Israeli soldiers when he returned to the hous...
7 Jan 46min
Nakba #40 - Mahmud al-Hissi
“We lived in a house in al-Hilwa in Jaffa, next to the Jabaliya Mosque. Jaffa was largely Arab, but we also had some neighbors who were Palestinian Jews. My parents have told me that people celebrated...
7 Jan 1h 3min
Nakba #39 - Hilwa Iskander
1936 “At the beginning of the Arab uprising against the British, my father was shot in the back. A couple of years later, the British killed my uncle.” 1938 “My mother was called Husn, and she was a g...
7 Jan 1h 7min
