Mahmoud al-Hamdan, aged 105 from al-Shawawra near Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Bea Brown Jacob Norris 10.25377/sussex.7271174.v1 https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Mahmoud_al-Hamdan_aged_105_from_al-Shawawra_near_Bethlehem_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271174 <div>POOR QUALITY AUDIO. Mahmoud al-Hamdan (105 years old, born 1900, from al-Shawawra) interviewed by Fadwa Abu al-Hour on 27 June 2005. <br></div><div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: he was a young boy when World War I started; war destroyed so many things; when the locusts came they arrived from the villages to the east and destroyed everything in their wake; in al-Shawawra the people used to eat the chickens and the horses particularly in the year of the drought in 1916; diseases spread; there was only one doctor from Bethlehem who used to come to a specific place in Beit Sahour to treat people for free; people used to eat orange peel; the residents of al-Shawawra used to go to the Dead Sea to collect salt to sell. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape. <br></div><div>Transcript: summary. <br></div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as FIle 3 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.</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 Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history