Mikha'il Khayr from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Mikha'il Khayr from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: Mikha'il Khayr (from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Manar al-Sous. He describes the following: people who ran away from Ottoman military conscription during World War I; spread of diseases during World War I; story of an employee whose job was to collect locusts and burn them; poverty and starvation during World War I. Original audio: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 23 of Box 5.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271066
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: Manar al-Sous
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic, English
Spatial Coverage: 31.6978535/ 35.2197752
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University
Date (approximate): c.1992-2008

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