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>