This essay is based on the oral history interview which I undertook on the 11/04/03 with Mr M Ali at his home. The interview was conducted in Arabic, so therefore the translated transcript is not an absolute word for word translation, but the most completed that I was able to produce.

“a life story or biographical approach is best

in which an interviewee is encouraged to relate

their life chronologically beginning with family

background, childhood, religion, working

life and later family life”

I think to begin to have a clearer understanding and to place the whole interview in context it is always advisable to begin the interview with the subject’s background. The Branston and Stafford (1999, p233) suggestion is that personal identity and the background interpretation of the ordinary individual could raise new and important information in an oral interview.

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