10.25377/sussex.7271093.v1 Freja Howat-Maxted Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Leila Sansour Bea Brown Bea Brown Jacob Norris Jacob Norris Hanna Giacaman, from Bethlehem 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 Bethlehem University Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history 2019-08-21 07:26:40 Dataset https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Hanna_Giacaman_from_Bethlehem_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271093 Hanna Giacaman (from Bethlehem) interviewed by Saheer Abu Sa'da. <div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: Ottoman rule was a dictatorship – all the funds went to the Sultan and taxation was very high; ‘seferberlik’ – Ottoman military conscription. </div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape. </div><div>Transcript: word for word. </div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 1 of Box 8. </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>