Mariam Salsa', aged 102 from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Bea Brown Jacob Norris 10.25377/sussex.7271171.v1 https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Mariam_Salsa_aged_102_from_Beit_Sahour_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271171 <div>Mariam Salsa' (102 years old from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Maha al-Sleibi on 14 July 2005. <br></div><div><br></div><div>She discusses the following: military conscription during World War I; locust plague and the year of drought in 1916; the 6-month strike; life at the Rosary School under the British Mandate.<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 2 of Box 12. <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.<br></div> 2019-08-21 07:26:46 Ottoman Empire and World War I collection World War I in Bethlehem Bethlehem oral history Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem Locust plague 1915 Bethlehem University British Mandate in Palestine Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history