Collecting stories from exile, 1999.

  • Collection ID 2006.0192
  • Creator Names Bing-Canar, Jennifer
  • Title Collecting stories from exile [videorecording] : Chicago Palestinians remember 1948.
  • Dates 1999.
  • Physical description 1 videocassette (VHS, 28 min.) : col. ; 1/2 in.
  • Access and usage restrictions For viewing purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a copy made if one is not available).
  • Collection summary This video concerns the Chicago Arab Oral History Project organized by the Arab American Action Network and the American Friends Service Committee. This documentary includes excerpts from video-taped oral history interviews of Chicago area residents who are Palestinian and who experienced the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, when many of them became exiled from their homeland. This program also describes the workings of the oral history project and includes excerpts of the historians discussing the interviews they were conducting.
  • Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Copyright, Chicago American Friends Service Committee, 1999.
  • Names
    • American Friends Service Committee. Chicago Arab Oral History Project.
    • Arab American Action Network. Chicago Arab Oral History Project.
    • American Friends Service Committee.
    • American Friends Service Committee. Chicago Arab Oral History Project.
    • Arab American Action Network. Chicago Arab Oral History Project.
  • Subjects
    • Arab Americans Illinois Chicago 20th century Interviews.
    • Arab-Israeli conflict Interviews.
    • Jewish-Arab relations Interviews.
    • Palestinian Arabs Illinois Chicago 20th century Interviews.
    • Palestinian Arabs History 20th century Interviews.
  • Geographic coverage
    • Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.
    • Palestine History
  • Genre
    • Interviews. aat
    • Oral histories. aat
    • Videocassettes. aat