10.25377/sussex.7271048.v1
Freja Howat-Maxted
Freja
Howat-Maxted
Leila Sansour
Leila
Sansour
Bea Brown
Bea
Brown
Jacob Norris
Jacob
Norris
Mariam Shomali from Beit Sahour 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 07:26:36
Dataset
https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Mariam_Shomali_from_Beit_Sahour_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271048
POOR QUALITY AUDIO.
Mariam Shomali (from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Leila Younis on 14 July 2004. <div><br></div><div>She discusses the following: locust plague and how the government combatted it with airplanes; her husband was conscripted into the army for 6 years; British government was better than the Ottoman one as none of her family were conscripted. </div><div><br></div><div>Original audio: floppy disk. </div><div>Transcript: word for word. </div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this floppy disk was categorised as File 6 of Box 4. </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>