10.25377/sussex.7272851.v1 Freja Howat-Maxted Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Leila Sansour Bea Brown Bea Brown Jacob Norris Jacob Norris Naji Abdullah Muhammas, aged 106 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 07:26:52 Dataset https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Naji_Abdullah_Muhammas_aged_106_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7272851 Naji Abdullah Muhammad (106 years old) interviewed by Firas al-Jaraiseh. <div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: locust plague of 1915 and the drought of 1916; when the locusts came they destroyed everything and left the people with no food; people used to eat the locusts which he describes as delicious (2 different ways to eat them); Ottoman military conscription; conditions improved when the British came. </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 24 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>