10.25377/sussex.7271063.v1 Freja Howat-Maxted Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Leila Sansour Bea Brown Bea Brown Jacob Norris Jacob Norris Halima Batma from Battir 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 07:26:37 Dataset https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Halima_Batma_from_Battir_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271063 Halima Batma (from Battir) interviewed by Isam al-Batma on 15 July 2005. <div><br></div><div>She discusses the following: the Ottoman period, Britain Mandate and Israeli occupation; injustice of Ottoman rule and how bad the year of the locusts was; British Mandate was very bad and resembled Israeli rule in many ways; how they hid Abd al-Qader al-Husseini when he was being hunted by the British during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. </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 22 of Box 5. </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>