Ghayda Media
December 6, 2021
on Monday morning 6/12/2021 the administrative board of the Mehri Language Center for Studies and Research held its second regular meeting headed by Prof. Amer Fael Balhaf, head of the center.
The meeting discussed and approved the following works:
1- Discussing the minutes of the previous meeting held on Tuesday, 9/21/2021, with an emphasis on raising the center’s departments’ plans for the next year 2022 .
2- Hearing a briefing by Dr. Saeed al-Qumairi, Executive Director of the Mehri Language Center for Studies and Research, on his visit to the temporary capital of Aden, which included:
– Scientific libraries donate the center’s publications, and the center’s library is supplied with some linguistic and cultural literature.
– Giving a scientific lecture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Aden, entitled: The Mehri language, its linguistic evidence and some of its arts.
– Agreement with the Aden Center for Historical Studies and Publication to hold an international conference in October 2022 in Al-Mahra Governorate, entitled “Al-Mahra through History”, and agreement on its main axes and main topics, which will be announced at the beginning of next year 2022 .
2- Approval of printing the new publications of the Mehri Language Center for Studies and Research, which are as follows:
– The book “The Mahari Folk Tale… A Morphological Approach in the Light of Probe’s Approach (Hazeit “Lilanot” as an example”) by the researcher Dr.: Mosad Amer Sidoun Kelchat.
A poetry collection by the late poet Gharib Khamis Al-Kush.
– The book “Explorations of plants in Mahra and Socotra…from the memoirs of European orientalists in the nineteenth century” translation of scientific works from German into Arabic by researcher Dr. Muhammad Al-Fatimi, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicinal Drugs, University of Aden, after obtaining permission from the original researchers in the German Foundation .
4- Follow up on the progress of the research projects implemented by the center, which are as follows:
– The project “Inventory and Documentation of Mahari Language Vocabulary”, funded by the local authority in the governorate, whose work will end on 12/12/2022, and then move to the third phase of the project, which is to unload the data and save it electronically, and deposit it in the Google network to identify it.
– The “People’s Songs in Al-Mahra Governorate” project, funded by the Cultural Attaché at the US Embassy in Yemen, which is in its early stages and is represented by field visits to document songs used in the governorate’s directorates.
5- Updating the online portal of the Mahari Language Center, www.mcsr.mhru.edu.ye,, with the adoption of the new additions to the site:
– Developing the site in line with the websites of research centers in the world and high-end educational institutions.
– Adding special windows to the side sites for the written and speaking Mehri dictionary.
– Developing the Mahar language keyboard, and expanding its use in various electronic systems: Android, IOS.
– Creating special accounts for the Mahari Language Center for Studies and Research in the Google system, and electronic stores to prepare practical applications for introducing the Mahari language, and teaching it electronically.
6- Discussing and approving the implementation of some scientific courses, which the center will implement, in which the Mehri researcher and graduate students in the governorate will be targeted.