18 May 2023 18:30 - 20:30
Caabu and the British Yemeni Society (BYS) invites you to a hybrid book launch (both in person and online) with Ianthe Mary Maclagan: Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town, on Thursday 18 May at 6:30pm.
The event will take place at the Arab British Centre, 1 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE, and is £5 for Caabu and BYS members and £8 for non-members. You can join as a Caabu member here.
You can reserve a spot here. Refreshments will be provided for those attending in person.
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Copies of Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town will be available to purchase on the evening, but can be purchased here. Books by Caabu speakers can be purchased here through Caabu's affiliate page on Bookshop.org. Caabu receives 10% of any purchase made as does an independent book shop.
When: Thursday 28 May 2023, 18:30 (BST, UK time).
Where: Boardroom at the Arab British Centre (where Caabu is based), 1 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE. Directions can be found here. Book your ticket here.
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About the book:
My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town
- Details the author’s encounters with the women of a small town in the Yemeni mountains between 1981-83
- Offers a unique and moving insight into a country now largely renowned only for war and humanitarian disaster
- Combines the findings of anthropological fieldwork with the personal knowledge gained from immersing yourself in an entirely different culture
“As a window into women’s lives it must be unparallelled. A ready-made classic.”
– Tim Mackintosh-Smith
An engaging travel narrative, Bread and Henna provides an intimate portrait of Yemeni life through insights into the cuisine, practices, and traditions of an ordinary town. After a gruelling road journey, the anthropologist couple are initially taken in by a family who provide support and hospitality – but charge extortionate rent. In turn, the couple set up on their own, struggling with isolation and practicalities as the author begins to integrate herself into a new community, forming connections with the women living nearby along the way. This memoir will enthrall lovers of travel writing, people interested in the workings of different societies and the lives of women, and those who have travelled to Yemen – or have yearned to do so.
About the speaker:
Ianthe Mary Maclagan was born in 1952. In 1981, she spent eighteen months living in the small Yemeni town of Safaqayn in Jebel Hufash. Her experiences formed a key component of her social anthropology fieldwork, completed as part of her PhD from the University of London. In the years that followed, Ianthe made several trips to Yemen before the outbreak of war made further travel impossible. She is also the author of Food and Gender in a Yemeni Highland Community in Culinary Cultures of the Middle East, eds. Sami Zubaida and Richard Tapper, 1993. I. B. Tauris.
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