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Shakib Adeeb Abdullah al-Nijweh, aged 80 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 NorrisShakib Abdeeb Abdullah al-Nijweh (80 years old - though his wife claims he's a bit older) interviewed by Pauline Nono.
He discusses the following: World War I during the Ottoman period; military conscription suffered by the Arabs caused them to welcome the British conquest; racism of the Ottoman regime and how Palestinians saw the collapse of the Ottoman Empire as liberation; education – not everyone was able to study, women were not allowed to work.
Original audio: cassette tape.
Transcript: word for word.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 3 of Box 3.
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.
