Issa al-Araj, aged 92 from Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Issa al-Araj (92 years old from Bethlehem) interviewed by Jiries al-Ali on 15 March 1995. <br>He discusses the following: country was better before World War I; when the war started the situation worsened, especially after the onset of the drought and the locust plague; people used to fight to get enough food to eat; after the spread of cholera people suffered more. <br>Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 4 of Box 8. <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.