%0 Generic %A Howat-Maxted, Freja %A Sansour, Leila %A Brown, Bea %A Norris, Jacob %D 2019 %T Maria Handal from Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I %U https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Maria_Handal_from_Bethlehem_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271051 %R 10.25377/sussex.7271051.v1 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13397858 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13397876 %K Ottoman Empire and World War I collection %K World War I in Bethlehem %K Bethlehem oral history %K Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem %K Locust plague 1915 %K Bethlehem University %K British Mandate in Palestine %K Middle Eastern and African History %K Middle Eastern and North African history %X Maria Handal (born during the Ottoman period, exact date of birth unknown, from Bethlehem) interviewed by Farhan Abu Jodeh on 26 June 2004.

She discusses the following: Ottoman rule was unjust as people were heavily taxed and conscripted into the military; her father evaded military conscription by eating a dirty fish to get sick; Ottomans told every family that they had a certain number of locusts to collect; Britain Mandate was much better than Ottoman rule.

Original audio: cassette tape.
Transcript: word for word.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University these cassette tapes were categorised as File 7 of Box 4.

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.
%I University of Sussex