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Record Number: 33595


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Hasan, smoking wisps of paper filled with green tobacco, walked on reciting poems composed by his father about Harold and the R.A.F. and chucked his long brown fingers to explain the verses to us and to the donkey behind him [12 lines of verse are translated and quoted by Stark, with an interruption from her midway, showing this is a reactive listening experience]'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

17 Feb 1938

Country:

Yemen

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Wadi near Huraidha
county: Shibam, Hadhramaut

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Listener:

Freya Stark

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

31 Jan 1893

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Travel writer

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Yemen

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Anon Anon

Title:

[unknown Arabic poems in praise of the RAF and Harold Ingrams]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

unknown Arabic poems composed between 1936-38 and recited from memory

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

33595

Source:

Print

Author:

Freya Stark

Editor:

n/a

Title:

A Winter in Arabia: A Journey through Yemen

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1972

Vol:

n/a

Page:

165

Additional Comments:

Pagination is from the 2011 IB Tauris edition. The book was first published by John Murray in London in 1972.

Citation:

Freya Stark, A Winter in Arabia: A Journey through Yemen, (London, 1972), p. 165, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33595, accessed: 05 November 2024


Additional Comments:

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 - 9 May 1993) was a British explorer and travel writer. This listening experience took place in the Wadi south-east of Huraidha (near Shibam) in the Qu'aiti State of Hadhramaut, which was a British protectorate from 1858 until its abolition in 1967. The Arabic praise poems recited by Hasan and composed by his father refer to the British political agent for South Arabia, Harold Ingrams, who had brokered a peace deal between warring factions. The RAF was in the process of a bombing campaign to support the 'Ingrams Peace' at the time.

   
   
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