On Monday ,June 22, 2020, Dr. Saeed Saad Najadan Al-Qumairi, Deputy director of Al-Mehri Language Center Council and the Executive Director of the Center, headed the regular meeting. the meetimg discussed the following topics:
The first topic: the center’s website
They discussed the issue of establishing an advanced website in Arabic and English for the Mehri Language Center for Studies and Research, based on the agreement and contract concluded between the center and the e-commerce company in Mukalla, which stipulates that an advanced website similar to the websites of international research centers be designed, at a financial cost of $2,100.
The second topic: Implementation of a field project to inventory the vocabulary of the Mehri language:
In order to preserve the Mehri vocabulary from being lost, the attendees agreed, as everyone agreed to choose people to implement a field project for codifying the vocabulary circulating in all regions and environments of the Mahra Governorate and outside, and to subject them to special training courses in the process of linguistic documentation and its methods, and at the end of this topic, the attendees agreed on the necessity of Develop a financial vision for the project.
The third topic: printing the book of Mehri poetry
They discussed the issue of printing the book (Mehri Poetry: Its Artistic and Aesthetic Features – Its Composition and Weights) by the researcher Abdul Majeed Awad bin Awaid Al-Jaafari, which is the research winner of the Center’s Prize in its first edition 2019 (the Literary Branch), where the researcher made the amendments suggested by the arbitrators, and the book was also reviewed. Linguistically, after discussion, the meeting approved printing the book at the expense of the center, and authorizing the executive director to complete the procedures.
The fourth topic: Printing the Mahra book “Khawatier and Ashjan”
The attendees recommended reviewing and printing the book (Al-Mahra, Khawatier and Ashjan) by the researcher, Prof. Amin Abdullah Al-Yazidi, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education in Al-Mahra for Postgraduate Studies. It is a cultural book with a variety of subjects and topics, dominated by an introductory character in the governorate of Al-Mahra, land, people and some of its literature.
The fifth topic: translation of a French research on the languages of South Arabic:
The center’s management concluded an agreement with Dr. Bashir Zindal, professor of French at Dhamar University in Yemen, to translate some of these French researches and turn them into a book.
Also, the following topics were also discussed:
Annual Centre Awards.
Technical studies of the new Centre building.
Mechanism of stay at the center under the Corona pandemic.
The meeting was attended by:
Dr. Saeed Najdan Al Qamiri
Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Al-Mu
Dr. Adel Thabin Al-Awali
Dr. Muhammad Ali Shelian
Dr. Winner Juman Khamis
Prof. Saad Ben Kalchat
And the electronic attendees.
Prof. Amer Fahl Blaghah
Dr. Anwar Mohammad Kalshat