Hassan Abd al-Latif from Battir, aged 77 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Bea Brown Jacob Norris 10.25377/sussex.7271144.v1 https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/figure/Hassan_Abd_al-Latif_from_Battir_aged_77_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271144 <div>Hassan Abd al-Latif (77 years old from Battir) interviewed by Sa'ida al-Batma. <br></div><div><br></div><div>He describes the following: tales related to him by his father and grandfather about World War I and the British Mandate; locusts came from the east from Jordan and the noise they used to make; to get rid of the locusts they made a tunnel in the land with a metal cover on top so the locusts would fall in and then they would burn them; locust plague resulted in starvation as they ate all the crops; coastal areas were less damaged by the locusts; there were no deaths in Battir; the General Strike of 1936 and how it happened by chance; during the British Mandate many people sold their lands. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape. <br></div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 1 of Box 9. <br></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> 2019-08-21 07:26:44 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