{"id":144,"date":"2023-05-17T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/?p=144"},"modified":"2023-07-28T00:13:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:13:53","slug":"majliswaseda-our-life-is-the-sea-the-ship-the-coast-and-the-anchorage-know-us-the-life-of-the-red-sea-dhow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/news-en\/144","title":{"rendered":"Majlis@Waseda\u00a0\u201cOur Life is the Sea: The Ship, the Coast and the Anchorage Know us: The Life of the Red Sea Dhow&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"mod-accordion__title\">\u201cOur Life is the Sea: The Ship, the Coast and the Anchorage Know us\u201d<\/h3>\n<div class=\"mod-accordion__content js-accordion__content\">\n<div class=\"mod-wysiwyg\">\n<p>The Life of the Red Sea Dhow<br \/>\nProfessor Dionisius A.\u00a0Agius\u00a0(University of Exeter)<\/p>\n<p>Waseda\u00a0University,\u00a0Waseda\u00a0<wbr \/>Campus Building 3, Room 802<br \/>\nWednesday May 17, 17:15-18:45<\/p>\n<p>This presentation\u00a0is about the cultural memories of the Red Sea people in the past eighty years. The traditional vessel, the dhow,\u00a0is at the centre of the present discourse; its cultural life as seen through the eyes of the\u00a0people who build the dhows and seafarers\u00a0who crossed the perilous Red Sea.\u00a0We have insights into superstitious beliefs as the voyagers faced threats such as storms,\u00a0wrecks,\u00a0and pirates.\u00a0People shared their recollections of the dhows sailing in convoy\u00a0for trade; the hoisting of sails; the prayers they recited for fair winds and in despair\u00a0when struck by\u00a0gales. They remembered the pearling days\u00a0of\u00a0diving and\u00a0the\u00a0opening of shells; the songs\u00a0they\u00a0sang on board\u00a0ship\u00a0and\u00a0the return of their journey\u00a0joyfully welcomed\u00a0by family and friends.\u00a0It is true that mariners,\u00a0traders,and craftsmen have\u00a0in the past twenty years\u00a0moved away from the sea and the coasts to inland regions or even abroad in search of new livelihoods as the traditional maritime industries have declined, but enough remains to demonstrate a continuum that reaches deep into the past.\u00a0There is still an active maritime culture\u00a0among the Red Sea fishermen\u00a0which flourishes despite the encroachments of modern life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur Life is the Sea: The Ship, the Coast and the Anchorage Know us\u201d The Life of the Red Sea Dhow Professor Di [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/qatarchair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}