10.25377/sussex.7271153.v1
Freja Howat-Maxted
Freja
Howat-Maxted
Leila Sansour
Leila
Sansour
Bea Brown
Bea
Brown
Jacob Norris
Jacob
Norris
Muhammad Ibrahim Dhweib, born in 1923 from Za'atara near Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
University of Sussex
2019
Ottoman Empire and World War I collection
World War in Bethlehem
Bethlehem oral history
Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem
Locust plague 1915
Bethlehem University
Middle Eastern and African History
Middle Eastern and North African history
2019-08-21 07:26:45
Dataset
https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Muhammad_Ibrahim_Dhweib_born_in_1923_from_Za_atara_near_Bethlehem_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271153
<div>Muhammad Ibrahim Dhweib (born in 1923 from Za'atara) interviewed by Samar Salahat. <br></div><div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: locust plague of 1915 lasted for 23 days and caused starvation and poverty; people fought the locust plague by putting poison in the bran or by burying and burning the locusts. <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 4 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>