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Mariam Salsa', aged 102 from Beit Sahour 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
Mariam Salsa' (102 years old from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Maha al-Sleibi on 14 July 2005.

She discusses the following: military conscription during World War I; locust plague and the year of drought in 1916; the 6-month strike; life at the Rosary School under the British Mandate.

Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: word for word.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 2 of Box 12.

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

Creator

Maha al-Sleibi

Contributors

Adnan Musallam, Niveen Hazboun, Laila Ayyad, Yacoub Alatrash

Date

14/07/2005

Type

Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript

Source

Bethlehem University

Language

Arabic

Spatial

31.6978535,35.2197752

Spatial Relation

Beit Sahour

Identifier

pb_bu_wwi_020050714-0052aa.mp3, pb_bu_wwi_020050714-0052ab.pdf

Rights

Bethlehem University