Ahmad Quais discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Title
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Ahmad Quais discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Description
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Ahmad Qnais interviewed by Fatimah Asad. He discusses the following: World War I; Ottomans took men for military conscription and some people paid them not to take their sons; Ahmad’s father was able to pay for his two children to avoid conscription but not the third; the reason for the Ottoman Empire's involvement in the war was to betray the Arabs; relations between the Arabs and the Ottoman Empire (Turks) were bad – Ottomans only cared about taxes; starvation set in for the Arabs while the Turkish soldiers were fine; locusts destroyed the crops during the locust plague of 1915 and people burned them; people used to be kind and respectful to each other; when the British came they brought money and took the gold; relations between Arabs and Jews at that time were good, until Britain supported Zionism and confiscated the Arabs’ firearms, giving them to Jews instead. Original audio: 2 cassette tapes. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University these cassette tapes were categorised as File 8 of Box 1.
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Identifier
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pb_bu_wwi_7265627
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Subject
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Bethlehem
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Palestine
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Palestinian Diaspora
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Ottoman Empire and World War I collection
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World War I in Bethlehem
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Bethlehem oral history
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Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem
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Locust plague 1915
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Bethlehem University
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British Mandate in Palestine
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License
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CC BY 4.0
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Creator
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Fatimah Asad
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Contributor
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Adnan Musallam
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Niveen Hazboun
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Laila Ayyad
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Yacoub Alatrash
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Type
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Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
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Source
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Bethlehem University
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Language
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Arabic
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Rights Holder
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Bethlehem University
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Date (approximate)
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c.1992-2008
