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Nicola Saras from Beit Jala 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
Nicola Saras (from Beit Jala) interviewed by Reem Abu Sa'da.

He discusses the following: allies entered Beit Jala via the village of al-Walaja; they killed the locusts by using holy water in the church; issue of military conscription under Ottoman rule and how men used to wear women's clothes to avoid being caught.

Original audio: CD.
Transcript: word for word.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this CD was categorised as File 4 in Box 4.

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

Reem Abu Sa'da

Contributors

Adnan Musallam, Niveen Hazboun, Laila Ayyad, Yacoub Alatrash

Date

c.1992-2008

Type

Digital reproduction of CD and handwritten transcript

Source

Bethlehem University

Language

Arabic

Relation

pb_bu_wwi_c19920000-0031aa.mp3 (another interview with Nicola Saras)

Spatial

31.7160165,35.1783942

Spatial Relation

Beit Jala

Identifier

pb_bu_wwi_c19920000-0013aa.mp3, pb_bu_wwi_c19920000-0013ab.pdf

Rights

Bethlehem University