year of birth:
1935
originally from:
Haifa, Palestina
lives in:
Sidon, Libanon
duration: 9:05 min
Muhammad ‘Arabi describes his youth in Haifa; the Jewish and Arab neighbourhoods, the local nightlife and the intermixing of Jews and Arabs. His interview finishes with the tensions generated by land sales to Jewish settlers and the British role in the conflict.
The Haifa in which Muhammad grew up was a city that saw a growing influx of Jewish immigrants. Muhammad worked as a mechanic for the British until 1948. He had many Jewish friends and married a Jewish woman, with whom he fled to Lebanon in 1948.
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