Halima Batma from Battir discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Halima Batma (from Battir) interviewed by Isam al-Batma on 15 July 2005. <br>She discusses the following: the Ottoman period, Britain Mandate and Israeli occupation; injustice of Ottoman rule and how bad the year of the locusts was; British Mandate was very bad and resembled Israeli rule in many ways; how they hid Abd al-Qader al-Husseini when he was being hunted by the British during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. <br>Original audio: cassette tape. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 22 of Box 5. <br>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.