Howat-Maxted, Freja Sansour, Leila Brown, Bea Norris, Jacob Fadwa Tawfiq Abu Atta, aged 93 from Beit Jala discussing the Ottoman period and World War I Fadwa Tawfiq Abu Atta (93 years old, born 1907 from Beit Jala) interviewed by Niveen Jabrieh on 22 March 2000. <div><br></div><div>She discusses the following: military conscription during World War I and the injustice of Ottoman rule; people either had to pay or marry a foreign woman to avoid conscription; the Ottoman army used to leer at women and rape them; talks about marriage traditions – how the wedding festival lasted for 10 days; education was simple consisting of just reading and writing; people emigrated because of poverty and conscription; discusses transportation; women of Bethlehem used to dress up; the spread of disease. </div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape. </div><div>Transcript: summary. </div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 1 of Box 11. </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.<br></div> Ottoman Empire and World War I collection;World War I in Bethlehem;Bethlehem oral history;Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem;Bethlehem University;Middle Eastern and African History;Middle Eastern and North African history 2019-08-21
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