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>