Maria Handal from Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I Howat-MaxtedFreja SansourLeila BrownBea NorrisJacob 2019 Maria Handal (born during the Ottoman period, exact date of birth unknown, from Bethlehem) interviewed by Farhan Abu Jodeh on 26 June 2004.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Original audio: cassette tape. </div><div>Transcript: word for word. </div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University these cassette tapes were categorised as File 7 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>