Fawaz Fawaz

Fawaz Fawaz was interviewed in More House, UN Post 2-45, UNIFIL, South Lebanon for the Military Archives Oral History Project. His interview is part of a series of interviews recorded to mark forty years of Irish service in Lebanon with UNIFIL. Fawaz is a former translator with UNIFIL, retired in 2011, and he is now working with the Chief Humanitarian Committee in Tibnin. Fawaz speaks about his personal experience working with Irish battalions and other contingents in UNIFIL. He also speaks about Tibnin and he has written a book on the area.

Relationship with the Irish

Fawaz Fawaz
Interviewed for MAOHP - 07/03/2018
Location(s): Tibnin

Length: 3.44

In this clip Fawaz Fawaz discusses the long relationship between the Irish battalions and the village of Tibnin and his own links to Irish soldiers. He speaks about the monument in the village of Tibnin to the memory of the Irish soldiers who died while serving with UNIFIL. He speaks...

Lebanese Armed Forces

Fawaz Fawaz
Interviewed for MAOHP - 07/03/2018
Location(s): Tibnin

Length: 2.16

In this clip Fawaz speaks about his happiness now to see UNIFIL patrols with their own army patrols, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). He refers to his happiness to see the LAF in the area and asserts his belief that UNIFIL's presence in South Lebanon shows the world what life...

These are my Relatives

Fawaz Fawaz
Interviewed for MAOHP - 07/03/2018
Location(s): Tibnin

Length: 1.05

In this clip Fawaz tells a story about his son as a young child. He was in kindergarden when a patrol of Irish soldiers passed by and he shouted 'Those are my relatives' because they used to play with him when they visited his father's house.

Deaths of Irish soldiers

Fawaz Fawaz
Interviewed for MAOHP - 07/03/2018
Location(s): Bint Jubayl

Length: 1.24

In this clip Fawaz speaks about the deaths of Irish soldiers in South Lebanon. He refers specifically to the impact that the deaths of two Irish soldiers [Private Thomas Barrett and Private Derek Smallhorne] at At-Tiri in April 1980 had on him.

Lebanese Civil War

Fawaz Fawaz
Interviewed for MAOHP - 07/03/2018
Location(s): Tibnin

Length: 2.15

In this clip Fawaz speaks about people from Christian and Muslim backgrounds living and working together in Lebanon peacefully for hundreds of years. He speaks about peace and the role of education in South Lebanon. He refers to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the unity of Lebanon. Fawaz discusses...

Arrival of Irish Battalion

Fawaz Fawaz
Interviewed for MAOHP - 07/03/2018
Location(s): Hariss Tibnin

Length: 1.20

In this clip Fawaz speaks about the arrival of the first Irish battalion in Hariss in June 1978; a few weeks later they came to Tibnin. He speaks about Camp Shamrock where the Irish were stationed and he describes his memories of meeting Irish army dentists and officers and the...