Iremam - UMR 7310 - The Fatima Al-Baydani-Alzawiya Sound Archives

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Unpublished images of Yemeni heritage now available online : http://phonotheque.hypotheses.org/21601.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...