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BFSA) (Formerly the Society for Arabian Studies) BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF ARABIA (BFSA) (formerly the Society for Arabian Studies) Number 18 ISSN: 2050-2036 2013 £5.00 British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) (formerly the Society for Arabian Studies) BFSA Trustees Outreach President Ms Beatrice de Cardi OBE Chair Dr Lloyd Weeks Chairman Dr Derek Kennet Lectures Dr Steffen Hertog, Dr Shelagh Weir, Treasurer Mr Simon Alderson Mrs Ionis Thompson (coordinator) Honorary Secretary Mr Michael Website coordinator Dr Lloyd Weeks Macdonald Conferences Dr Lucy Blue (coordinator), Ms Sarah Searight, Dr Rob Carter, Mrs Janet Dr Noel Brehony CMG Starkey Dr Rob Carter Mr William Facey Publications Dr Noel Guckian OBE Chair Dr St. John Simpson Dr Robert Hoyland Bulletin Dr Lucy Wadeson (editor), Ms Sarah Ms Carolyn Perry Searight (coordinator), Mr William Facey, Mrs Dr St John Simpson Ionis Thompson, Mrs Ionis Thom pson Monographs Dr Derek Kennet, Dr St John Dr Lloyd Weeks Simpson (editors) Grants Seminar (including PSAS) Chair Dr Derek Kennet Chair Dr Lloyd Weeks Dr Lucy Blue, Dr Nadia Durrani Notes for contributors to the Bulletin The Bulletin depends on the good will of BFSA members and correspondents to provide contributions. News, items of general interest, details of completed postgraduate research, forthcoming conferences, meetings and special events are welcome. Please contact Ionis Thompson or Sarah Searight. Emails: [email protected] / [email protected] Grants in aid of research Applicants are advised to apply well ahead of the May and October deadlines. Full details on p. 4. Membership Membership details are available from the BFSA website www.thebfsa.org. For membership renewals contact William Deadman, BFSA Membership Secretary, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK, or email: [email protected] For other enquiries, contact: The Hon. Secretary, Mr Michael Macdonald The British Foundation for the Study of Arabia c/o The London Middle East Institute School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG, UK Website: www.thebfsa.org Bulletin of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia ISSN: 2050-2036. BFSA Registered Charity No. 1003272 CONTENTS CONTENTS ............................................. 1 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES .................. 29 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE ...................... 2 SAUDI ARABIA ...................................... 35 EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... 3 YEMEN .................................................... 38 AWARDS AND PRIZES ....................... 40 BFSA NEWS ............................................ 4 MONOGRAPH SERIES .................................... 4 AVAILABLE GRANTS AND BFSA GRANTS-IN-AID 2013 .......................... 4 PRIZES....................................................41 LECTURE REPORTS 2012 ............................... 4 CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS LECTURE PROGRAMME 2013 ....................... 9 2012–13 ................................................ 46 ARABIAN NEWS AND RESEARCH .. 10 COMPLETED CONFERENCES .................... 46 ARTS ................................................................ 10 UPCOMING CONFERENCES 2013 .............. 47 PROJECTS ....................................................... 15 BOOK REVIEWS .................................. 50 NABATAEAN NEWS......................................19 NEW PUBLICATIONS ON ARABIA .. 64 OTHER GENERAL NEWS ............................. 22 NEW BOOKS 2012–13 .................................... 64 NEWS AND RESEARCH BY COUNTRY ..... 23 JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES .................... 66 BAHRAIN ................................................. 23 SOCIETIES, ASSOCIATIONS AND KUWAIT ................................................... 24 OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES ........... 68 OMAN ....................................................... 25 QATAR ..................................................... 27 Front cover: A Kuwaiti tawwash, or pearl trader, singles out a fine example on board a dhow on the pearl banks, photographed by the Australian seaman and writer, Alan Villiers, in August 1939. From Sea of Pearls: Seven Thousand Years of the Industry that Shaped the Gulf (London: Arabian Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-0-9571060-0-0). © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London (NMM PM5082-04). A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Dear BFSA Members, At the same time other areas of BFSA activity Herewith another excellent and very still need more work. Our efforts to establish informative Bulletin. This is the 18th and its a flagship research project in the region to act pages packed with information on events, as a vehicle for fundraising and profile exhibitions, research projects and lectures are building are still on-going. We are still testimony, not only to how much is going on looking to recruit trustees with the in Arabian studies, but also to the highly enthusiasm, experience, knowledge and professional (but largely unpaid!) BFSA connections to help us build the BFSA and its production team of Lucy Wadeson, Sarah activities. Although we are still able to offer Searight, Ionis Thompson and Will Facey. grants-in-aid of research, these are not of a The fact that the Bulletin continues to appear scale that we feel would really help young on time and to such a high standard is a real researchers and new projects to take off and tribute to their skill and hard work. For me, get up and running. buried away in the middle of a cold County Times are also tough financially. Despite Durham winter and a busy university term, it the generous support of the MBI Al Jaber is always really encouraging to see the Foundation, the BFSA is still running at an Bulletin appear and to be reassured of the overall loss. This explains the decision to enthusiasm and energy that still drives increase membership fees to £30 this year. Arabian studies and that shows no sign of This is not a decision that was taken lightly – dwindling or declining – indeed quite the in fact the trustees deliberated over it for more opposite. than a year. The calculation is that the extra The BFSA approaches the third income will allow us to cover costs and to put anniversary of its formation this year. It is still a little more into encouraging new research. having mixed success. On the one hand, the The support we have had this year has Bulletin, the Seminar for Arabian Studies and allowed us to keep the Bulletin in hard-copy the Monograph Series are all highly rather than a down-loadable electronic file successful and are all making a real and I know that this will be welcome to many contribution to the field at an international members. level – all unique in their fields. Once again The legacy of the Red Sea conferences this summer we witnessed a record-breaking lives on. We are about to witness Red Sea VI Seminar with around 200 participants from all which is being held this year in Tobuk, Saudi over the world converging on the British Arabia on March 17-19 (for more details see Museum for three days in July to listen to p. 47). This is an initiative that was launched over 60 papers and an excellent MBI lecture by the Society for Arabian Studies in 2000 given by Pavel Wolf. This year marked the and is still going strong. inclusion of a special session on museums. It is with sadness that we say goodbye to Conceived and organised by Mark Beech, this Dr Ardle McMahon, who has been a part of session clearly captured a key moment in the the Seminar organisation since 2004, we wish development of museums in the GCC (of him all the very best for the future. The 2013 which there are now more than 150). It Seminar is going to be dedicated to three big included a lot of lively debate and new names in the field: Prof. Walter Muller, Ms insights and the publication is to be very Beatrice de Cardi and Mr Peter Parr in order much looked forward to - it will certainly be a to celebrate their long and illustrious careers milestone. The museum session attracted a lot and the immense contribution that they have of new participants and reflects the growing made to the field. awareness of the importance of museums and So there is much that is good and that is to the preservation and study of culture right be celebrated, but there is also much to do. across Arabia. The work goes on. It is gratifying though to The lecture series continues thanks to the see in these pages how much is happening. tireless energy of Ionis Thompson and has Dr Derek Kennet covered topics from the Hejaz railway to the Chair of the Trustees earliest humans in Arabia this year. 2 BFSA Treasurer Required EDITOR’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The BFSA is looking for a volunteer treasurer to take over the management of its I am hugely grateful to Ionis Thompson and finances. This is not a very onerous job, Sarah Searight for their invaluable help in entailing probably a total of one week's work editing this year’s issue of the Bulletin. I per year, but it does require someone who is would also like to thank Will Facey for his reasonably numerate and comfortable with much appreciated work on the reviews basic financial issues. The job entails section. This year I was fortunate to have the managing the BFSA bank accounts, paying help of an editorial assistant: Aurore Hamm, a invoices, keeping abreast of the finances and PhD candidate currently based at the French producing annual accounts. The treasurer will Institute of the Near East (IFPO) in Amman, need to put their name forward for election at Jordan. Aurore’s efficient and careful work the forthcoming AGM. It
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