10.25377/sussex.7271150.v1 Freja Howat-Maxted Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Leila Sansour Bea Brown Bea Brown Jacob Norris Jacob Norris Shakir Hirmas, aged 85 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 British Mandate in Palestine Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history 2019-08-21 07:26:44 Dataset https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Shakir_Hirmas_aged_85_from_Bethlehem_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271150 <div>Shakir Hirmas (85 years old, born in 1910, from Bethlehem) interviewed by Wafa' Ahmad on 9 March 1994. <br></div><div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: military conscription during World War I – whoever could pay 50 jineih (pounds) was able to avoid going to the army, likewise anyone married to a woman from the Ta‘amra Bedouin tribes as they moved around a great deal and were exempt; deal between Sherif Hussein of Mecca and Britain; locust plague; his mother raised him alone when his father was in the military – she had to sell her gold to have enough money to raise her children. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape. <br></div><div>Transcript: word for word. <br></div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 3 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>