Shakib Adeeb Abdullah al-Nijweh, aged 80 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Freja Howat-Maxted
Leila Sansour
Bea Brown
Jacob Norris
10.25377/sussex.7271009.v1
https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Shakib_Adeeb_Abdullah_al-Nijweh_aged_80_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271009
Shakib Abdeeb Abdullah al-Nijweh (80 years old - though his wife claims he's a bit older) interviewed by Pauline Nono. <div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: World War I during the Ottoman period; military conscription suffered by the Arabs caused them to welcome the British conquest; racism of the Ottoman regime and how Palestinians saw the collapse of the Ottoman Empire as liberation; education – not everyone was able to study, women were not allowed to work. </div><div><br></div><div>Original audio: cassette tape. </div><div>Transcript: word for word.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 3 of Box 3. </div><div><br></div><div>This fileset exists as part of the Ottoman Empire and World War I collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.</div>
2019-08-21 07:26:34
World War I in Bethlehem
Bethlehem oral history
Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem
Locust plague 1915
Bethlehem University
British Mandate in Palestine
Middle Eastern and African History
Middle Eastern and North African history