Halima Batma from Battir discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Halima Batma from Battir discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: Halima Batma (from Battir) interviewed by Isam al-Batma on 15 July 2005. She discusses the following: the Ottoman period, Britain Mandate and Israeli occupation; injustice of Ottoman rule and how bad the year of the locusts was; British Mandate was very bad and resembled Israeli rule in many ways; how they hid Abd al-Qader al-Husseini when he was being hunted by the British during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. Original audio: cassette tape. Transcript: word for word.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 22 of Box 5.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271063
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: Isam al-Batma
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Date: 15/07/2005
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Spatial Coverage: 31.7281985/ 35.1292772
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University

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