Daoud Abdullah discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Daoud Abdullah discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: Daoud Abdullah interviewed by Khaled Shawawra. He discusses the following: locust plague and how it came to Jericho; locusts ate and destroyed everything; people used to make a hole in the ground and build a fence around it so they could burn them; after the locust plague people became very ill and suffered from diseases such as cholera and measles; arrival of the British made things worse as it led to conflict and war. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 18 on Box 18.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7272830
Subject: Bethlehem; Palestine; Palestinian Diaspora; Ottoman Empire and World War I collection; World War I in Bethlehem; Bethlehem oral history; Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem; Locust plague 1915; Bethlehem University; British Mandate in Palestine
License: CC BY 4.0
Creator: Khaled Shawawra
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Spatial Coverage: 31.8595075/ 35.4469982
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University
Date (approximate): c.1992-2008

Item sets: The Bethlehem University Oral History Collections; The Ottoman Empire and World War I