Al-Shaykh Muwannis
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Al-Shaykh Muwannis (Arabic: الشيخ موّنس) was an Arab town in the British Mandate of Palestine. A religious shrine was there. The town was approximately 8.5 kilometers from the center of the District of Jaffa. The Yarqon River flows through what was the the farming area of the town. The Tel Aviv University occupies part of the town's former area.
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[edit] History
Before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, approximately 2,000 people lived in the town. Two sexually-segregated elementary schools were in it. The boy's school was built in 1932 and the girl's school was built in 1943. A total of 300 students were attending these schools at the time of the war.
According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are: "A number of houses, exhibiting a variety of architectural features, remain; they are occupied by Jewish families. One of them is a two-storey house with a one-storey annex; it is made of cement and has rectangular doors and windows and flat roofs. Another is a two-storey, two-unit, symmetrical house with two front porches on the top floor. Each porch is defined by five lancet arches. A single wall of another house stands alone, topped by a post that supports an electric wire."
[edit] Reference
Walid Khalidi (1992): "All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948." ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
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[edit] External links
- http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jaffa/al-Shaykh-Muwannis/index.html
- Sheikh Muwanis
- Opposition to the demolition of the Beidas House, one of the last remains of Sheikh Muwanis in Tel Aviv by Esther Zandberg Ha’aretz Aug. 13, 2003
- Tel Aviv University is asked to acknowledge its past and to commemorate the Palestinian village on which grounds the university was built
