Mariam Shomali from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Mariam Shomali from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: POOR QUALITY AUDIO.
Mariam Shomali (from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Leila Younis on 14 July 2004. She discusses the following: locust plague and how the government combatted it with airplanes; her husband was conscripted into the army for 6 years; British government was better than the Ottoman one as none of her family were conscripted. Original audio: floppy disk. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this floppy disk was categorised as File 6 of Box 4.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271048
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: Leila Younis
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Date: 14/07/2004
Type: Digital reproduction of floppy disk 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