BYS Events

Format: 21/10/2017
Format: 21/10/2017
Format: 21/10/2017
  • “Without Glory but without Disaster”: lessons of British withdrawal from South Arabia 04/12/2017 - 09:00

    The British Yemeni Society, the University of Durham and the MBI al Jaber Foundation are supporting a whole-day conference to held at the Royal United Services Institute to mark the 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of the British from Aden and South Arabia on 30 November 1967. The conference is looking at the tumultuous events of the 1960s from the British point of view.
  • Aid Delivery in the Context of Conflict: the situation on the ground in Yemen. 16/11/2017 - 17:45

    Shane Stevenson is the Yemen Country Director for Oxfam and will discuss the stark realities of the challenges to supporting the people of Yemen in the protracted crisis that is now in its third year.  He has worked in the development sector for over eight years and spoken publicly on the immoral, illegal and incoherent approach of the international community in their engagement in Yemen.
  • Update on Yemen by HM Ambassador Simon Shercliff OBE 02/11/2017 - 17:30

    The British–Yemeni Society is delighted to invite members and friends to a talk by HM Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen, and co-president of the Society Simon Shercliff OBE on Thursday 2 November 2017 at St Matthew's Conference Centre, 20 Great Peter Street, Westminster SW1P 2BU. 
  • Aden Emergency 50 years on 27/10/2017 - 11:30

    Historian Jonathan Walker, author of "Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in Yemen, 1962–67" (Spellmount, 2011) discusses the Aden Emergency and its legacy 50 years on. The event will take place at the National Army Museum on Friday 27 October 2017 at 11.30am. Free admission, but please book using the online link: https://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/aden-emergency

    This is not a B-YS event, but will be of interest to members.