Mahmoud al-Hamdan, aged 105 from al-Shawawra near Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Title
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Mahmoud al-Hamdan, aged 105 from al-Shawawra near Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Description
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POOR QUALITY AUDIO. Mahmoud al-Hamdan (105 years old, born 1900, from al-Shawawra) interviewed by Fadwa Abu al-Hour on 27 June 2005. He discusses the following: he was a young boy when World War I started; war destroyed so many things; when the locusts came they arrived from the villages to the east and destroyed everything in their wake; in al-Shawawra the people used to eat the chickens and the horses particularly in the year of the drought in 1916; diseases spread; there was only one doctor from Bethlehem who used to come to a specific place in Beit Sahour to treat people for free; people used to eat orange peel; the residents of al-Shawawra used to go to the Dead Sea to collect salt to sell. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as FIle 3 of Box 12. 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.
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Identifier
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pb_bu_wwi_7271174
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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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License
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CC BY 4.0
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Creator
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Fadwa Abu al-Hour
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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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Date
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27/06/2005
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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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Spatial Coverage
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31.5374596/ 35.2100907
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Rights Holder
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Bethlehem University
