Howat-Maxted, Freja Sansour, Leila Brown, Bea Norris, Jacob Muhammad al-Fawarna, aged 100 from al-Barriya (the Wilderness) near Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I POOR QUALITY AUDIO. Muhammad al-Fawarna (100 years old from al-Barriya (the Wilderness)) interviewed by Iman Shawawra on 17 May 2006. <div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: locust plague that came from Jericho; people got rid of the locusts by digging holes in the ground and burning the locusts inside, as well as placing poison in some roughage (nikhale); two types of locust, both were very large and ate everything; widespread disease as the plague lasted 3 months. </div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape. </div><div>Transcript: word for word. </div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 21 of 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;Middle Eastern and African History;Middle Eastern and North African history 2019-08-21
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