10.25377/sussex.7272830.v1
Freja Howat-Maxted
Freja
Howat-Maxted
Leila Sansour
Leila
Sansour
Bea Brown
Bea
Brown
Jacob Norris
Jacob
Norris
Daoud Abdullah discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
University of Sussex
2019
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
2019-08-21 07:26:50
Dataset
https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Daoud_Abdullah_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7272830
Daoud Abdullah interviewed by Khaled Shawawra. <div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: locust plague and how it came to Jericho; locusts ate and destroyed everything; people used to make a hole in the ground and build a fence around it so they could burn them; after the locust plague people became very ill and suffered from diseases such as cholera and measles; arrival of the British made things worse as it led to conflict and war. </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 18 on Box 18. </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>