Recovering Yemen’s Cultural Heritage: The Stookey Microfilms

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 308-318
Author(s):  
Dale J. Correa
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Foreign Service ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
The University

Abstract In 1973, recent PhD and newly-affiliated Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin, Robert W. Stookey, made microfilm copies of a number of Arabic manuscripts in Yemen on a variety of subjects. Stookey was not himself a manuscripts expert, but was instead invested in preserving and making available for research the intellectual tradition of Yemen, a country in which he had spent considerable time as a researcher and member of the Foreign Service. Stookey’s microfilms were accessioned to the UT Libraries’ Middle East collection in 1980, and digitized starting in 2014. This article discusses the importance of the Stookey microfilms as an early post-custodial arrangement for preserving, making accessible, and ultimately recovering the intellectual heritage of Zaydism in Yemen. Through their inclusion in the Zaydi Manuscript Tradition portal, these microfilms will be made freely and openly available for anyone to discover and study on the Internet. While the destruction of life, property, and cultural memory continues in Yemen, this is an example of a way for North American library collections to help to recover Yemen’s precious heritage.

An Unexpected Mandate? The April 8, 2004 Algerian Presidential Elections

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P. Parks
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
National Defense ◽  
George Washington ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Foreign Service ◽  
National Defense University ◽  
The University ◽  
Middle East Studies

As part of the Middle East Institute's commitment to promoting and advancing Middle East studies for the next generation, the Institute in late 2003 announced the Mrs. Harley Stevens Award for the best essay on a selected theme by a graduate student at a US University. The Award was named for Mrs. Harley C. Stevens, a longtime benefactor of the Institute and the Journal, who died last year. The theme chosen for the first competition was democratization in the Middle East, with the essayists encouraged to write on a single case study. Under the terms of the competition, the Editor of the Journal chose three judges to judge the entrants. The judges were Amy Hawthorne of the Carnegie Endowment, Nathan Brown of George Washington University, and Stephen Buck, former US Foreign Service Officer, also formerly with National Defense University. The judges chose as the winner of the competition Robert Parks of the University of Texas, who received his award at the Middle East Institute's Annual Conference in the fall. The winning essay appears here.

Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting (Summary)

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-48
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Chicago Circle ◽  
The University ◽  
Middle East Studies

The Board of Directors met for its fourteenth meeting at New York on 16 February 1973. The Board approved the Association’s co-sponsorship of Hamline University’s summer project on the Middle East as an encouragement to small institutions and new programs to undertake the kind of activity proposed by the Image Committee and Center Directors. The Board decided to hold the 1974 annual meeting in Boston under the sponsorship of universities in the area, coordinated by Harvard, and also to look into the possibilities of Madrid and New York City for later meetings. The Board approved a proposal to Be submitted by the University of Michigan to the National Science Foundation for an automated data project on the Middle East, as originally envisaged by the Library Committee. The Board also approved the proposal for a translation project submitted jointly by MESA, the University of Texas and AUC to the Office of Education. In accordance with the current Ford grant, the Board designated visiting scholars and alternates to be invited to attend the 1973 annual meeting and to remain in the country for 3 to 6 weeks travelling and lecturing at American and Canadian institutions. The Board reviewed the matters of federal funding of non-academic markets for graduates in Middle East studies and of the State of the Art Conference. It appointed the following Nominating Committee: Professor John Masson Smith, University of California, Berkeley, Chairman, and Professors Frank Tachau, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Carolyn Killean, University of Chicago, Michael Lorraine, University of Washington and President Issawi.

scholarly journals The Problem of Site Looting in East Texas

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
East Texas ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The University

It is likely that looting by treasure hunters and grave robbers has destroyed thousands of sites in East Texas. In the last 5 to 10 years, the vandalism and looting of archeological sites by commercial looters on private, state, and federal property has reached epidemic proportions. Undisturbed Caddoan Indian habitation sites and cemeteries, thought to date from about 1200 to 200 years B.P., are very vulnerable to disturbance and destruction by commercial collectors and looters. These folks are. destroying forever irreplaceable evidence about Texas' cultural heritage. The looting and vandalism of Caddoan sites has been a persistent Texas problem since the early 1900s. In an illuminating October 1931 letter regarding the looting problems in Northeast Texas, Professor John R. Swanton of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, commented that "there seems to be no way to handle [the looters] except to salvage as much of the material as possible before they get to it.'t Professor J.E. Pearce of the University of Texas also noted in 1931 that unemployed geologists ...and farmers are digging up camp sites and burial places allover and selling the returns for whatever they can get...It is exceedingly discouraging. I am working as hard as I can with the funds at my disposal to salvage what I can of the situation.

J-Contests Helpful, Most Judges Believe

1972 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Tom Pasqua
Keyword(s):  
Communication Research ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Special Project ◽  
Staff Research ◽  
The University

This paper was produced as a special project at the Center for Communication Research at the University of Texas at Austin. Jack L. Whitehead, staff research associate, supervised the project.

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