18-Neama Zaid (Um Salah) from the village of Beit Nabala near Lyyd/Lod

Speaker notes: She lives alone in a large house. She was 10 years old in 1948. Recalls many details of her village life. Beit Nabala was a prosperous, agricultural, self-sufficient village. Grandfather owned a quarry. He partnered with Jewish people but during the Nakba lost the business; she doesn’t know what happened. The Jews from nearby Tel Aviv spoke Arabic. She sang for us a sad song about her village, as had another woman we met. She made us coffee later. (Thanks to Fareed Taamallah, colleague and translator)—more to come in my blog.