- Title
- Oral Memoirs of Osama al-Zain, transcript
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- Date
- 2013
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- Language
- English
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- Interviewer
- Esber, Rosemarie M.
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- Interviewee
- al-Zain, Osama
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- Oral History Category
- beings ; social dynamics ; migration and settlement ; belief
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- Oral History Project
- Arab Americans of the Southern United States
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- Oral History Collection
- Family Life and Community History
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- Audio Link
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Oral Memoirs of Osama al-Zain, transcript
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Baylor University Institute for Oral History
Osama Al-Zain
Oral History Memoir
Interview Number 1
Interviewed by Rosemarie Esber
April 25, 2013
College Park, Maryland
Project: Arab Americans of the Southern United States
ESBER: Okay. Today is Thursday, April 25, 2013. My name is Rose Esber. I am
interviewing Osama Al-Zain in College Park, Maryland, for the Charlton Oral History
Project on Arab Americans of the South. Osama, will you please state your full name?
AL-ZAIN: It’s Osama Al-Zain.
ESBER: What is your birth date and the place of your birth?
AL-ZAIN: I was bom in Ramallah, Palestine, on August 22, 1964.
ESBER: Are you named after anyone?
AL-ZAIN: No, not to my best knowledge.
ESBER: What does your name mean?
AL-ZAIN: It means “lion.” Yeah. So it’s a lion.
ESBER: Who are your parents, and where were they born and raised?
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