The Good Old Days in Jaffa: Hasan Hammami, Episode III

Join Hasan Hammami, an 87-year-old Nakba survivor from Jaffa, Palestine as he shares about what life was like in Jaffa before 1948 – his life and experiences in Jaffa up to age 15, when he and his family were forced out of their home and country on a Cargo Sailboat with nearly 3,000 people packed like sardines. A personal review of his memories, of family, neighborhood, City and Country, relating what it was like to grow up in this pre-Biblical city and country. These were the Good Years.

Hasan will also share about his seven years as a stateless Palestinian refugee youth: navigating through the interrupted life of being a stateless Palestinian refugee as he adjusted to life and schooling in Lebanon, to years of survival as a teenage worker in a Saudi Arabian Desert Labor camp, earning a living as a Translator and Statistical Analyst to build what has turned out as a foundation of friends, learning and associations for a life in the Diaspora. These were the Interrupted life years.

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