10.25377/sussex.7271015.v1 Freja Howat-Maxted Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Leila Sansour Bea Brown Bea Brown Jacob Norris Jacob Norris Said Abu-Khdeira discussing the Ottoman period and World War I University of Sussex 2019 Ottoman Empire and World War I collection 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 2019-08-21 07:26:34 Dataset https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Said_Abu-Khdeira_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271015 Said Abu-Khdiera interviewed by Nader Salah. <div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: Turkey (the Ottoman Empire) treated the local population well - better than the Britain did because they didn’t work with Zionists; locust plague; diseases the plague caused in 1915 devastated the local population; no role for women; relationships between Christians, Muslims and Jews were very good; only education was Islamic; denies that Ottomans took taxes by force; never heard about any rebellion against the Ottomans. </div><div><br></div><div>Original audio: cassette tape. </div><div>Transcript: word for word. </div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 6 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>