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Professor Charles Beckingham, Fellow of the British Academy, who died on 30 September 1998 aged 84 spent much of his academic career as Professor of Islamic Studies, first at Manchester University (1958-65), and then at SOAS, University of London (1965-81); during this latter period he served as…
Yahya al-Mutawakkil, who was killed in a road accident between Lahej and Aden on 13 January 2003, was a leading figure in the Yemen Arab Republic established after the 1962 revolution in north Yemen, and was to play an important role in the merger of North and South Yemen in 1990.
He was…
by JOHN SHIPMAN
At a Suffolk market auction a few years ago, Mrs Elizabeth Fitzpatrick spotted, and successfully bid for, a folio of pencil sketches (on board) of monuments in Marib and Timna. The sketches intrigued her because she had visited both places during a tour of Yemen. Earlier this…
Najla Abu-Talib came from two highly cultured and respected families descended from a long line of religious scholars: on her father’s side from the Abu-Talib, from the Rawdha district of Sana’a, and on her mother’s side from the Zabarah, from the old city of Sana’a; the late Mufti of Yemen, Sheikh…
Those who knew John Baldry during his Arabian days, but who lost touch with him thereafter, will be sad to hear that he died three years ago in Thailand. John earned his living as an English-language teacher, mostly for the British Council, but latterly for other employers. After working in Tunisia…
Ralph Daly, who died in Muscat where he and his wife, Elizabeth, had retired, spent most of his adult life in the Arab world, and a memorable part of it in what was then called the Aden Protectorate.
Born in Glasgow and educated at Sherborne, he was commissioned into the Welsh Guards, and fought…
By Alan Rushworth
This is an abridged version of an article published in ‘The Yemen Times’ on 26 February 2007. The author, a long-standing member of the Society, is a metallurgical engineer who has specialised in methods of quality control in the engineering industry.
Every year the British-Yemeni…
Ziad ‘Don’ Beydoun, Emeritus Professor at the American University of Beirut, died on 7 March 1998, aged 73. He spent much of his early career as a geologist in the southern part of Yemen and maintained a life-long interest in that country
Ziad’s father was Mutasarrif of Haifa in the last days of…
June Knox-Mawer’s death at the age of 75 ended a distinguished career in radio broadcasting, notably as a presenter of Woman’s Hour on the BBC. But before that, after a spell as a journalist in Chester, she had spent some 6 years in Aden, followed by 11 years in Fiji, as the wife of a member of the…
by Brendan McSharry
This article was published in the British Yemeni Society's journal, November 1996
My aim in writing this short piece for the Journal is to highlight the importance of the Republic of Yemen to the Middle East region and to show how the British Council’s cultural and educational…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
