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Muhammad Awwad Allah from al-Walaja 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
Muhammad Awwad Allah (from al-Walaja) interviewed by Marwa Khalifa on 28 June 2006.

He discusses the following: British rule in Palestine including the General Strike of 1936 and the three people who were famously executed - al-Jamjom, al-Zeer and Hijazi; anyone wearing the hata (kuffiyeh) would be arrested by the British during the Revolt of 1936-39.

Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: summary.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categpised as File 5 of Box 7.

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

Marwa Khalifa

Contributors

Adnan Musallam, Niveen Hazboun, Laila Ayyad, Yacoub Alatrash

Date

28/06/2006

Type

Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript

Source

Bethlehem University

Language

Arabic

Spatial

31.7294115,35.1497752

Spatial Relation

al-Walaja

Identifier

pb_bu_wwi_020060000-0027aa.mp3, pb_bu_wwi_020060000-0027ab.pdf

Rights

Bethlehem University