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Issa al-Araj, aged 92 from Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

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posted on 2019-08-21, 07:26 authored by Freja Howat-Maxted, Leila Sansour, Bea Brown, Jacob NorrisJacob Norris

Issa al-Araj (92 years old from Bethlehem) interviewed by Jiries al-Ali on 15 March 1995.

He discusses the following: country was better before World War I; when the war started the situation worsened, especially after the onset of the drought and the locust plague; people used to fight to get enough food to eat; after the spread of cholera people suffered more.

Original audio recording: cassette tape.

Transcript: summary.

In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 4 of Box 8.

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.

History

Project

https://figshare.com/projects/Bethlehem_University_Oral_History/56120

Collection

https://doi.org/10.25377/sussex.c.4282493

Creator

Jiries al-Ali

Contributors

Adnan Musallam, Niveen Hazboun, Laila Ayyad, Yacoub Alatrash

Date

15/03/1995

Type

Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript

Source

Bethlehem University

Language

Arabic

Spatial

31.7053996,35.1936877

Spatial Relation

Bethlehem

Identifier

pb_bu_wwi_019950315-0033aa.mp3, pb_bu_wwi_019950315-0033ab.pdf

Rights

Bethlehem University

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Keywords

Ottoman Empire and World War I collection World War I in Bethlehem Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem Locust plague 1915 Bethlehem University Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history

Licence

CC BY 4.0

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