Muhammad al-Fawarna, aged 100 from al-Barriya (the Wilderness) near Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

POOR QUALITY AUDIO. Muhammad al-Fawarna (100 years old from al-Barriya (the Wilderness)) interviewed by Iman Shawawra on 17 May 2006. He discusses the following: locust plague that came from Jericho; people got rid of the locusts by digging holes in the ground and burning the locusts inside, as well as placing poison in some roughage (nikhale); two types of locust, both were very large and ate everything; widespread disease as the plague lasted 3 months. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 21 of Box 18. 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.

音频质量不佳。受访者为来自阿尔-巴里耶（al-Barriya，又称荒野地区）、时年100岁的穆罕默德·阿尔-法瓦尔纳（Muhammad al-Fawarna），本次采访由伊曼·肖瓦拉（Iman Shawawra）于2006年5月17日完成。受访内容涵盖以下要点：源自杰里科的蝗灾；民众通过在地面挖坑并将蝗虫置于坑内焚烧，以及在部分粗饲料（nikhale）中投放毒药的方式灭杀蝗虫；存在两种体型硕大的蝗虫，二者均可啃食所有可及植被；此次蝗灾持续三个月，期间伴随大范围疫病蔓延。原始录音载体为盒式磁带。转录文本采用逐字记录形式。该盒式磁带在伯利恒大学（Bethlehem University）的原始馆藏中被归类为第18盒第21号档案。本档案集隶属于星球伯利恒档案馆（Planet Bethlehem Archive）下设的伯利恒大学口述历史项目中的奥斯曼帝国与第一次世界大战馆藏系列。