Obituary for 20 Yemeni scholars of the humanities .. they passed away carrying their tragedies in difficult circumstances
English - Saturday 27 March 2021 الساعة 08:40 am
NewsYemen, Muhammad Abdo Al-Shuja:
Ten years since the events of the "Arab Spring" have brought about many changes at all levels.
University education and teaching staff at the College of Arts and Humanities, Sana'a University, have taken a large share of neglect and conflicts, which have lost this ancient edifice of many of its features and characteristics.
Approximately 21 exceptional teachers and researchers left between 2011 and 2021, representing various disciplines: sociology and anthropology, philosophy and archeology, history and civilization, geography and Islamic studies, psychology and modern and ancient literature.
Among them are heads of departments, deans of colleges, and assistant teachers, 4 decades of leaving behind dozens of research studies and thousands of students.
Some of them left prematurely, before the chaos departed and the war stopped. Each has its own story and tragedy. Some of them left a debtor who could not find his salary to meet the simple obligations of life, and others died because they did not find the value of medicine.
Many stories are difficult to count, not to mention that they kept on their way to the abode of the afterlife in the last years of the militia’s control.
Frustration, heart disease, diabetes, colon ... and other complications stood in front of their lack of tricks and weakness, pushed to the margins; So they were left to the winds of days to adjust their dreams and struggle with their aspirations.
Black years
On April 7, 2014, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Dr. Abd al-Rahman al-Munifi, leaving his colleagues and students with regret.
It was believed that death would prolong his absence from college and will not return again, but it was not soon enough, as everyone was surprised by Dr. Hassan Al-Kahlani, Professor of Contemporary Philosophy, Hajjah Governorate, February 1, 1959, the author of many researches and patriotic and party visions.
On May 14, 2014, Al-Kahlani, who had just left the Deanship of the College, died after enduring heavy burdens during the 2011 University Street events, and he was attacked more than once and a torrent of insults.
He was severely poisoned in mysterious circumstances, and subsequently fell into a coma, due to complications from diabetes that lasted for more than a month in Al-Thawra Hospital until he passed away.
It was preceded by Dr. Hussain Amin al-Bakri, who died on December 24, 2011, is a teacher in the Department of Islamic Studies.
Among those who have passed away in the past decade, d. Abdul-Malik Al-Maqrami, a teacher of sociology, and Dr. Hoda Al-Maqrami, as well as Dr. Hoda Al-Qubati, and we were not able to determine the exact date of death.
Death continued to reap academics with the continuing chaos, and with the advent of the Houthi militia, the dark picture was completed and the mirror only reflected miserable faces and necks that could not object.
D. Muhammad Baslama, a teacher in the archeology department, according to estimates in 2015/2016, as well as Dr. Hoda Taher, a professor of psychology, died between these two years, and Dr. Yahya Al-Aroumi, professor of sociology, as well as Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Abi from the Department of Islamic Studies.
2017 ... another departure
This year, death chose two of the most important archeology teachers. Muhammad Ali Al-Salami on April 28, 2017, Dr. Abdul Ghani Al-Sharabi, head of the Antiquities Department, on September 23, 2017.
2020 ... another year of farewell
While the staff was falling into the hands of death, the demands of the "faculty union" were gradually receding. Between 2015 and December 4, 2017, the union’s language changed completely, and the tone of its discourse was no longer used by the teachers to raise the red flag or to strike or demand “salaries are life”.
Everyone recognized the status quo, and the Syndicate was content with a brief condolences, readying the preamble for everyone who departed before seeing the light of the salary, just changing the name and specialization of the late, until it did not bother to write his biography. The most it does is open the funeral hall to receive mourners.
Thursday 29 October 2020, Dr. Mubarak Qasim Al-Batati, professor of philosophy, and according to his neighbors and students, he passed away while he was doing his work despite his illness and his advanced age, and until his last days he asked his own sources about when salaries would be disbursed.
On November 1, 2020, Professor of Psychology Adnan Abdel-Qader Al-Sharjabi passed away. His death came 27 days after he was released from detention after he was kidnapped on September 9, while on his way to the exam hall.
Al-Sharjabi is gone while he waits for his salary to buy the medications with which he used to face heart disease, breathing and other complications.
On November 21, 2020, another professor, Dr. Muhammad Abu Bakr Al-Haddad is a sociologist amid suffering from the absence of salary and harassment of the university.
Muhammad Al-Hajj Al-Kamali, a professor of philosophy and its head and former dean of the College of Education in Al-Mahwit Governorate, died on December 17, 2020, after suffering from the same conditions as his colleagues.
As for the sociologist and anthropologist and one of the founders of the department at Sana'a University, Dr. Abdo Ali Othman, he passed away on Monday, December 21, 2020, so his wife joined him on December 29, that is, 7 days after his death.
2021
The last of the deceased, a teacher in the Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology, Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Al-Amrani, March 17, 2021, left life while he is borrowing the value of meals that keep him alive in the hope that he will spend half of the accumulated salary.
Dr. Abd al-Rahman al-Saafani, “One of the causes of the high number of deaths among state employees, especially university professors, before stress, diabetes, heart disease, and atherosclerosis, and even before Corona; (salary cuts)."
Another academic and professor of modern literature d. Abdul Rahman Al-Amrani, born in Sana'a 1949, died on March 1, 2021.
On February 24, 2021, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Shuja ', born in Taiz 1946, majoring in history, civilization and a prominent historian
As for Syed Mustafa Salem - Egyptian - Yemeni, who was granted citizenship in 1980, he died on Sunday 3 January 2021, and he is a professor of modern history and has written many books on the history of Yemen and its conflicts.
Sayed Mustafa, a few days before his death, the Houthi group stormed his apartment in Sana'a and tampered with its contents and looted many things, and even confiscated them, which came like a thunderbolt to the man who loved Yemen and served it as no one served it.
This is a simple result of a group of professors from the College of Arts and Humanities who have left only during the past decade, most of them in recent years, leaving a homeland ravaged by war and its achievements confiscated; Neurotic and sectarianism.
Margins:
College of Arts and Humanities only.
Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Amrani (Modern Literature).
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Shuja (History).
Dr. Syed Mustafa Salem (History).
Dr. Adnan Al-Sharjabi (Psychology).
Dr. Mubarak Al-Batati (Philosophy).
Dr. Muhammad Al-Hajj Al-Kamali (Philosophy).
Dr. Abdo Ali Othman (Sociology).
Dr. Muhammad Al-Haddad (Sociology).
Dr. Muhammad Al-Salami (Archeology).
Dr. Abdul-Ghani Al-Sharabi (Archeology).
Dr. Muhammad Baslama (Archeology).
Dr. Hassan Al-Kahlani (Philosophy).
Dr. Hoda Taher (Psychology).
Dr. Hussain Al-Bakri (Islamic Studies).
Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Ibbi (Islamic Studies).
Dr. Abdul-Malik Al-Maqrami (geography).
Dr. Hoda Al-Muqrami (.....).
Dr. Hoda Al-Qubati (Islamic Studies).
Dr. Yahya Al-Aroumi (geography).
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Munifi (Psychology).
Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Al-Amrani (Sociology).
• Sociology 3
• Philosophy 3
• Psychology 3
• Islamic Studies 3
• Archeology 3
.Geography 2
.History 2
• Modern Literature 1
• Unknown Specialization 1.
