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
Timedaytime
Place:city: Wadi near Huraidha
county: Shibam, Hadhramaut
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Listener: 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: Title:[unknown Arabic poems in praise of the RAF and Harold Ingrams]
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsunknown Arabic poems composed between 1936-38 and recited from memory
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33595
Source: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: 20 April 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.
