18-Neama Zaid (Um Salah) from the village of Beit Nabala near Lyyd/Lod living in the Jalazone refugee camp

Speaker notes:

She lives alone in a large house.

She was 10 years old in 1948.

Recalls many details of her village life. Beit Na
bala 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.

Housing Conditions and Health in Jalazone Refugee Camp in Palestine, by A Al-Khatib, H Tabakhn (2006)

Israel is using coronavirus to implement the deal of the century by Fareed Taamallah (March 2020)

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Photos by Skip Schiel & Teeksa Photography