Muhammad Adaweha, aged 94 from Joret al-Shama' near Bethlehem; and Yusra Shakhtour discussing Ottoman period and World War I
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Title
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Muhammad Adaweha, aged 94 from Joret al-Shama' near Bethlehem; and Yusra Shakhtour discussing Ottoman period and World War I
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Description
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Muhammad Adaweha (94 years old from Joret al-Shama') and Yusra Shakhtour interviewed by Sahar Shakhtour on 20 June 1998. He discusses the following: injustice of Ottoman rule and how they took people’s food, especially from farmers; Ta‘amra Bedouin tribes were exempted from conscription in World War I as well as those who married women from the Ta‘amra; locust plague and how much people suffered; Sherif Hussein of Mecca brought the British to Palestine; when the British and the Jews came they made the people of Bethlehem sign in the white book; during World War I men from al-Khader were conscripted into the military; poverty of the people caused them to eat dead camels; women used to collect wood and coal to sell to people in Bethlehem and Beit Jala; when the Ottoman army used to come to take men from al-Khader for conscription they had to turn back because the houses were too close together. Yousra Shakhtour discusses the following: affirms the injustice of Ottoman rule; poverty and starvation of World War I. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 2 of Box 9. 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_7271147
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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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British Mandate in Bethlehem
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License
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CC BY 4.0
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Creator
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Sahar Shakhtour
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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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20/06/1998
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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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31.5695325/ 35.2211752
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Rights Holder
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Bethlehem University
