%0 Generic %A Howat-Maxted, Freja %A Sansour, Leila %A Brown, Bea %A Norris, Jacob %D 2019 %T Dheeb Najajra, aged 95 from Nahalin discussing the Ottoman period and World War I %U https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dheeb_Najajra_aged_95_from_Nahalin_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271162 %R 10.25377/sussex.7271162.v1 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398062 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398065 %K Ottoman Empire and World War I collection %K World War I in Bethlehem %K Bethlehem oral history %K Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem %K Locust plague 1915 %K Bethlehem University %K British Mandate in Palestine %K Middle Eastern and African History %K Middle Eastern and North African history %X
Dheeb Najarja (95 years old from Nahalin) interviewed by Azizah Ghayada.

He discusses the following: Ottoman and British periods; because of the injustice from Turkey people were extremely poor and used to pick the barley out of animal dung to eat; locusts and the lack of rain; when the British came they distributed food. Bethlehem was empty of men because so many had run away to avoid conscription.

Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: summary.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as FIle 8 of Box 9.

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.
%I University of Sussex