Language and Nature

This is a workshop on Kumzari led by Dr Dola Algady from the University of Sohar. PLEASE NOTE THE NEW TIME! We will start 2 hours later than normal for the rest of the Spring semester. The programme is as follows: Dola Algady, Muna AlBadaai, and Makeyya AlKumzari (University of Sohar): The boat trip from Khasab...

Speaker: Richard Porter: https://friendsofsoqotra.org/pdfs/Socotra%20bird%20update-05-2020.pdf I will talk about the variety of wildlife that makes this World Heritage Site such a global hotspot of endemism. I will dwell particularly on birds that I have been studying since my first visit in 1993. I will also cover the wildlife conservation history and particularly the actions that have...

The last meeting of the Language and/or Nature in South Arabia Workshop in 2020 will take place on Tuesday 8th at 13:00 GMT.  We will be back in January. The programme is as follows: - Samuel Liebhaber (Middlebury College): Presentation on the Digital Exhibit:  When Melodies Gather: Oral Art of the Mahra - Anna Fancett (Sultan...

Programme: Leonid Kogan (National Research University, Moscow): Towards an Arabic-Based Soqotri Orthography: Consonants and Vowels Kamela al-Barami (University of Leeds): Women in Shehret / Jibbali poetry: Who are Tfool and Alkhiyar? Craig Cornelius (Google): Typing in my language? Get started with GBoard and other keyboards Abstract: Using a language on digital devices requires text support, including ways...

Speaker: Mark Cocker: https://markcocker.com/ Some of the largest, most impressive birds in Europe accommodate two kinds of habitat: the realm of nature and the ecosystem of ideas that exists between the ears of their human neighbours. We have sometimes held views and fancies about bird species that vary with geography and across time. Sometimes birds can...

Programme: Abdullah al-Saqqaf (Dhofar): Beekeeping symbolism in Hadrami Arabic poetry Richard Gravina (SIL): Linguistic and non-linguistic factors in decisions on Soqotri orthography Janet C.E. Watson, Abdullah al-Mahri (CELCE - University of Leeds): Mehri sung poems Please contact j.c.e.watson@leeds.ac.uk if you wish to attend.  

The programme is: Janet Watson, Barry Heselwood, Abdullah al-Mahri & Andrea Boom (Leeds): Context is (almost) everything: Emphatics in Mehri Suad al-Manji (SQU and Omani Ministry of Education): Climatic events in Oman: the role of narratives in resilience (Talk in Arabic) Saeed al-Mahri (Salalah and CELCE): Southern Arabia: Culture and extremism Dola al-Gady (Sohar University): مشروع توثيق اللغة الكمزارية...

The online workshops have started up again after a summer break, and will be held twice monthly. On 14th September, we held a workshop on Soqotra, with presentations by Julian Jansen van Rendsburg, Miranda Morris and Alan Forrest. On 29th September a workshop will be held at 13.00 BST on Time. The programme is given...