Mikha'il Khayr from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

He describes the following: people who ran away from Ottoman military conscription during World War I; spread of diseases during World War I; story of an employee whose job was to collect locusts and burn them; poverty and starvation during World War I. Original audio: cassette tape. Transcript: summary.

In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 23 of Box 5. 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.