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Thursday, 25th February
Screening of the documentary film Humanitarian Citadel which tells the story of the ICRC humanitarian mission to Yemen in the 1960s.
The film will start at 5.30 p.m. (drinks from 5.00 p.m.) at the Middle East Association, 33 Bury Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6AX.
This event is free for Members, but please advise the Hon.
Secretary (020 7603 8895) if you wish to attend.
Annual Subscriptions
Members are reminded that subscriptions for 2010 are now due from those Members who have not signed Banker’s Orders. Cheques for £20 should be made out to ‘The British-Yemeni Society’ and posted to the Hon. Secretary at the address below.
Essay Competition 2009
The Society is delighted to announce that first prize has been awarded to Shuaib Almosawa for his essay The Yemeni Abandoned Lifestyle and second prize to Mohammed Awadh Aulaqi for Thoughts from Yemen. Shuaib’s essay will be published in the 2010 Journal.
British-Yemeni Society Grant 2010
This year’s academic grant has been awarded to Thanos Petouris for fieldwork towards his PhD thesis The anti-colonial movement in Aden and the Protectorates of South Arabia 1937-1967.
Al-Burdun
Members may be interested in an article and 12-minute documentary film
The Boarding House: the Yemeni Community of South Shields which was featured in last month’s issue of Saudi Aramco World magazine. The article and film are available to
view
online.
Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient
Yemen
The above catalogue, edited by St John Simpson (ISBN 0-7141 - 1151 -1 The British Museum Press) is now available from the new British Museum bookshop at £9.99, reduced from £24.99.
To find the bookshop: enter British Museum by main entrance, turn left on ground floor, walk through cloak room and mini shop to hall with Assyrian sculpture. Turn left again here and you will find yourself at the entrance to the bookshop.
Dhala,
1958
David Gwynne-James will talk about his recent book “Arabian Peninsula 1958 – An Account of Operations in the Dhala Region April 19-June 2 1958”.
The talk will take place at 12.30pm on Thursday 11th February 2010 in the Art Gallery of the National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4HT.
The event is free of charge, but Members wishing to attend are kindly requested to advise Amy Cameron by email:
acameron@national-army-museum.ac.uk
or tel: 020 7730 0717 extn 2425.
Wilton
Park conference
The 1014th Wilton Park Conference scheduled from Monday 15th - Wednesday 17th February 2010 is entitled Yemen: Prospects for Security, Stability and Development. See
www.wiltonpark.org.uk for further details.
Academic
conference on Yemen
The Society of Arab & Islamic Studies (University of Exeter-UK) along with the Sheba Center for Strategic Studies, the University of Sana’a and the Centre for Gulf Studies (University of Exeter-UK) will hold an international academic conference Yemen from the Threshold: Identity, Regionalism and Globalization in Sana’a, Yemen from 17th – 19th May 2010. Further information is available at
www.yemen-2010.com.
Members’ contact details
We occasionally need to make last minute changes to the programme and make every effort to keep members up to date. Where members have provided an email address, this is a simple procedure; for members without email, the Hon. Secretary will advise as many as possible – and practical – via telephone.
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