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%A Howat-Maxted, Freja
%A Sansour, Leila
%A Brown, Bea
%A Norris, Jacob
%D 2019
%T Mahmoud al-Hamdan, aged 105 from al-Shawawra near Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
%U 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
%R 10.25377/sussex.7271174.v1
%2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398086
%2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398089
%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 Middle Eastern and African History
%K Middle Eastern and North African history
%X
POOR QUALITY AUDIO. Mahmoud al-Hamdan (105 years old, born 1900, from al-Shawawra) interviewed by Fadwa Abu al-Hour on 27 June 2005.
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.
Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: summary.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as FIle 3 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