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Ahmad Muhammad from Artas 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
Ahmad Muhammad (from Artas) interviewed by Ahmad Issa.

He discusses the following: during the Ottoman period his father who was from Artas (near Bethlehem) was conscripted into the Ottoman army for 10 years enduring extremely harsh conditions, he eventually ran away from Palestine and took a further 6 months to arrive home; during the locust year people used to compete to see who could collect the most animal dung to grind it into wheat.

Original audio recording: cassette tape.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 6 of Box 6.

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

Ahmad 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

31.6899745,35.1794812

Spatial Relation

Artas

Identifier

pb_bu_wwi_c19920000-0022aa.mp3

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 UniversityMiddle Eastern and African HistoryMiddle Eastern and North African history

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