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Hamda Eid, aged 87 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
Hamda Eid (87 years from Bethlehem) interviewed by Sukaina Issa.

He discusses the following: World War I; locusts destroyed the city; men married to a foreign woman were exempt from military conscription; four men were taken to the military and never came back; story of a rebellion against the British; the injustice of Ottoman rule.

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

Project

Collection

Creator

Sukaina Issa

Contributors

Adnan Musallam, Niveen Hazboun, Laila Ayyad, Yacoub Alatrash

Date

c.1992-2008

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_c19920000-0055aa.mp3, pb_bu_wwi_c19920000-0055ab.pdf

Rights

Bethlehem University

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    Keywords

    Ottoman Empire and World War I collectionWorld War I in BethlehemBethlehem oral historyOttoman Empire in BethlehemLocust plague 1915Bethlehem UniversityBritish Mandate in PalestineMiddle Eastern and African HistoryMiddle Eastern and North African history

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