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Spanish rapper El Chojín talks at Leeds Central Library
El Chojín, a socially critical hip-hop artist, gives a public talk at the Central Library on Tuesday 18 February 2014, as well as engaging with undergraduate and school students
‘Write it or lose it: an alphabet for the pre-literate languages of Southern Arabia’
Miranda Morris presented a lecture in January at the University of St. Andrews, Agnes Savill Club, Parliament Hall on the development of an orthography for Modern South Arabian
Keynote speech at first Linguistics in Arabia conference, Jedda
Janet Watson presented a keynote speech on the documentation of Modern South Arabian at the first Linguistics in Arabia conference held at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah on 3-4 December 2013.
MA success
We are delighted to report that Amar Azad Adli al-Kathiri successfully defended his MA thesis on Shahri at Sultan Qaboos University on 24 November 2013.
Return from fieldwork
Miranda Morris and Janet Watson returned to the UK at the beginning of November after their second period of fieldwork in Dhofar.