Issa Danoun, aged 85 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Issa Danoun, aged 85 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: Issa Danoun (85 years old) interviewed by Shadha Jurban. He discusses the following: locust plague and how people used to eat whatever they could find; biggest injustice that Palestine faced was the coming of Zionism; people used to kill locusts by poisoning the bran; people had to eat camels and horses. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 6 of Box 9.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271156
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
License: CC BY 4.0
Creator: Shadha Jurban
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University
Date (approximate): c.1992-2008

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