Howat-Maxted, Freja Sansour, Leila Brown, Bea Norris, Jacob Daoud Abdullah discussing the Ottoman period and World War I 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> 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
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