Institut de recherches et d’études sur le monde arabe et musulman, Iremam, UMR 7310

Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH)
5, rue du Château de l’Horloge
BP 647
13094 Aix-en-Provence cedex 2

Director : Richard Jacquemond, Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille
Assistant Director : Cédric Parizot, Researcher at CNRS

Secretariat: Christelle Vayssière
Tél. : +33(0)4 42 52 41 62
Fax : +33(0)4 42 52 49 80
mél : secretariat.iremam@mmsh.univ-aix.fr

Financial accounting: Christine Miretti
mél : miretti@mmsh.univ-aix.fr

Associate researchers: for association applications consult the procedure in the Directory

International Welcome:

For Welcomeletters, write to: Myriam Laakili: laakili@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
For an internship report, a certificate of attendance and for any other application, Myriam Laakili welcomes you by appointment: laakili@mmsh.univ-aix.fr

For PhD students, contact: Christelle Vayssière
mél: vayssiere@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
Tél. +33 (0)4 42 52 49 69

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Consult the members directory

To contact the webmaster: Marie-Pierre Oulié. More...

Subsections

• Après le 13 novembre 2015 (2015-2017)
• Découverte d’une inscription en arabe datant du Ve siècle
• EGYPTE 2011-2014
• IRAK 2016-2017
• ISRAEL/PALESTINE 2011-2014/2016-2017
• LE "HALAL" 2012-2017
• LIBYE 2011-2017
• MONDE ARABE 2011-2018
• SYRIE 2011-2017
• TUNISIE 2011-2014
• YEMEN 2011, 2014-2017
• PRESSE
• RADIO
• TV
• Retransmission
• WEB. More...

An independent Yemeni researcher, Fatima Al-BAydani Alzawiya has dedicated herself to collecting Yemen’s intangible cultural heritage from 1979 to 2015. She worked in partnership with CEFAS (The Sanaa French Centre of Archeology and Social Sciences), the ENS and UNESCO, and founded the Institut Aydanoot. In 2015, she deposited this entire collection at the MMSH Sound Archives, as part of a convention with the IREMAM laboratory. The archive contains 13 265 files that have been organized into 7 directories, according to document type: audio (342 files), video (258 files), illustrations (199 files), editorial projects (241 files), publications (88 files), photographs (4506 files), and texts (7355 files).
Fatima Al-Baydani described the story behind this collection at a conference on the 12th of February 2015, available to listen.
Since October 2016, she has been hosted by IREMAM to work on this archive, and became a laureate of the Pause Program in 2017.
Since late February 2017, a selection of documents is now available online at the MMSH Sound Archives (photographs, videos, folklore, etc.) at:

 field videos corpus

• oral interviews corpus 
• photography corpus
• performance and workshop recordings corpus: http://phonotheque.mmsh.huma-num.fr/dyn/portal/index.seam?page=alo&aloId=12264&fonds=&nat=3&cid=353 
• documentary video corpus

To find out more on the Fatima Al-Baydani-Alzawiya corpus, available at the Aix-en-Provence MMSH Sound Archives.
And also on: Defter and Calames.
To read on Sound Archives Blog:
Fonds Fatima Al-Baydani-Alzawiya : pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine immatériel yéménite : http://phonotheque.hypotheses.org/21416.
Unpublished images of Yemeni heritage now available online : http://phonotheque.hypotheses.org/21601. More...

Catherine Miller, Director of Research at the CNRS and Director of Iremam (2015-2017), has registered fifty-seven interviews across two years (1981 and 1984) in South Sudan.
In this region, an intermediary between the Arabo-Muslim and African worlds, a variety of vehicular Arabic called Juba Arabic developed in the second half of the 19th century. A growing phenomenon throughout the 20th century, it has been observed in particular in Juba, capital of the Province of Equatoria in South Sudan, where the majority of these interviews were carried out. Catherine Miller has used this material to study the expansion of Juba Arabic, to the detriment of vernacular languages, and the cultural, economic, political and educational implications of Arabization in this region of the country.
This corpus was deposited at the MMSH Sound Archives in 2008 by Catherine Miller. The recordings can be heard online.
The Catalog below:

Catalogue Miller

See also the Sound Archives Blog. More...