%0 Generic %A Howat-Maxted, Freja %A Sansour, Leila %A Brown, Bea %A Norris, Jacob %D 2019 %T Mariam Salsa', aged 102 from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I %U https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Mariam_Salsa_aged_102_from_Beit_Sahour_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271171 %R 10.25377/sussex.7271171.v1 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398080 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398083 %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
Mariam Salsa' (102 years old from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Maha al-Sleibi on 14 July 2005.

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.

Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: word for word.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 2 of Box 12.

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