{"id":343,"date":"2023-04-13T20:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T20:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/?page_id=343"},"modified":"2023-11-16T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T07:13:37","slug":"interview-subjects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/our-history\/oral-history\/overview\/interview-subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"border border-radius-20 p-3\">\n<h2>Interview Subjects<\/h2>\n<p>The interview focuses on recording and documenting the biography of the narrator, then moves on to other topics, such as:<\/p>\n<h3>Genealogy and family tree:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Tribal genealogical documentation.<\/li>\n<li>Clans and their branches.<\/li>\n<li>UAE ruling families, in order to highlight family bonds and the sense of belonging to the nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Social Life:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Customs and traditions.<\/li>\n<li>Means of entertainment and recreation.<\/li>\n<li>Toiletries.<\/li>\n<li>Fishing and hunting.<\/li>\n<li>Raising livestock such as horses and camels.<\/li>\n<li>Popular folk dishes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Administrative and Political Life:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Local government and its role in public life.<\/li>\n<li>The role of local tribal leaders, and the relationship between the people and local Rulers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Economic Life:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Trade and Agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>Handicrafts and artifacts.<\/li>\n<li>Financial system such as currency types and the state financial resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Religious Life:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Mosques and their religious and social role.<\/li>\n<li>Role of clergymen in society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Cultural and Academic life:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Education.<\/li>\n<li>Education centers and Katateeb (traditional education system).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Science:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Folk medicine techniques.<\/li>\n<li>Popular folk remedies.<\/li>\n<li>Astronomy.<\/li>\n<li>Navigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Arts:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Handicrafts.<\/li>\n<li>Singing.<\/li>\n<li>Music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Traditional Architectural styles:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"expand-content-articles-indicator\">\n<li>Building mosques.<\/li>\n<li>Platforms and decorative designs.<\/li>\n<li>Types of water transportation systems such as &#8220;falags&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Shipbuilding industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Questions about the UAE&#8217;s annual initiatives.<\/h3>\n<p>Information on the history of certain places in the UAE and associated stories and memories of people who inhabited them is also collected<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview Subjects The interview focuses on recording and documenting the biography of the narrator, then moves on to other topics, such as: Genealogy and family tree: Tribal genealogical documentation. Clans and their branches. UAE ruling families, in order to highlight family bonds and the sense of belonging to the nation. Social Life: Customs and traditions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295,"parent":289,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-with-banner.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nla.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}