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Lands of Bani Salim
Hejaz, Arabian Peninsula
The family's first homeland within the Harb tribe, in the belt between Mecca, Medina and Yanbu. From here came the first migration during the famine, around 1810.
Places of the Family
Eight stops on a journey of two centuries, from the Hejaz to the diaspora
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Kafr Shubin
Qalyubia, EgyptDocumented burial site
A Delta village near Shibin al-Qanatir where Zain al-Din al-Harbi settled — the family's first home outside Arabia. His grave and his wife's lie here, and here his son Mousa grew, married and had children.
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Wadi al-Shallala — al-Dafanat
Beersheba District, Palestine
The family seat in Palestine on the wadi's eastern bank, some four kilometres from Beersheba. Fertile farmland where they combined cultivation and herding until the Nakba of 1948.
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Qawz al-Izz — Shrine of Sheikh Nuran
North-western NegevDocumented burial site
A mound rising above the land around it, named for the pride the victors took in their triumph there. It holds the graves of Hussein, Ismail and Abd al-Rahman, sons of Mousa, killed in the Azazma war, together with many of the generations that followed.
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Al-Khalasa
South of BeershebaDocumented burial site
An ancient site some forty kilometres south of Beersheba, holding the grave of Mousa son of Zain al-Din — the ancestor whose name the family carries.
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Khan Younis
Gaza Strip, PalestineDocumented burial site
Refuge of the family branches after the expulsion of the Beersheba tribes in 1948, and the burial place of many of its sons from that generation onward.
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Abasan al-Saghira
East of Khan YounisDocumented burial site
A town east of Khan Younis where a branch settled after the Nakba, holding graves of the line of Muhammad son of Mousa.
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Shibin al-Kawm
Monufia, EgyptDocumented burial site
A Delta city holding graves of the line of Abd al-Nabi son of Mousa — the branch that stayed in Egypt rather than moving to Palestine, whose descendants remain there still.
9
Amman
Jordan
The Jordanian capital, home to a branch of the family since the displacement from Gaza. Here the ninth and tenth generations were born — the first to know no migration. From here this record was compiled.
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Jerash
Northern Jordan
A city in northern Jordan where families of the household settled, known for its Roman ruins and for the camp that received those displaced from Gaza after 1967.