Mariam al-Khoury Elias Awwad from Beit Sahour, aged 90 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Mariam al-Khoury Elias Awwad (90 years old, born in 1915, from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Ali Abd Rabu on 27 June 2005. She discusses the following: how unjust Ottoman rule was; year of the locusts and how they used to catch and kill them by burning them; living conditions improved during the British Mandate through funding for public works. Original audio: cassette tape. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette was categorised as File 1 of Box 4. 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.