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. 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. 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. 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.

访谈对象为来自伯利恒的92岁老人伊萨·阿拉杰（Issa al-Araj），访谈由吉里耶斯·阿拉利（Jiries al-Ali）于1995年3月15日完成。访谈内容涵盖以下主题：一战前该国境况更佳；战争爆发后局势持续恶化，尤以干旱与蝗灾暴发后为甚；民众曾为获取足够食物而相互争斗；霍乱疫情扩散后，民众的生存境遇进一步恶化。原始录音载体为盒式磁带，转录文本为摘要版本。该盒式磁带现收藏于伯利恒大学，分类为第8盒第4号文件。此文件集作为「奥斯曼帝国与一战」馆藏的一部分，隶属于伯利恒星球档案馆（Planet Bethlehem Archive）旗下的伯利恒大学口述历史项目。