Mariam al-Khoury Elias Awwad from Beit Sahour, aged 90 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Mariam al-Khoury Elias Awwad from Beit Sahour, aged 90 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: Mariam al-Khoury Elias Awwad (90 years old, born in 1915, from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Ali Abd Rabu on 27 June 2005. She discusses the following: how unjust Ottoman rule was; year of the locusts and how they used to catch and kill them by burning them; living conditions improved during the British Mandate through funding for public works. Original audio: cassette tape. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette was categorised as File 1 of Box 4.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271027
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: Ali Abd Rabu
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Date: 27/06/2005
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Spatial Coverage: 31.6978535/ 35.2197752
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University

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