Book Signings and Presentations
On July 28, 2003, Marjorie Ransom and Bassam Alkahouaji spoke at the Textile Museum about the silver jewelry and textiles of the Middle East, using live models to illustrate. Left to right, Bassam Alkahouaji, Syrian textile expert, and women wearing costumes, left to right, Syrian, Yemeni Sanaa, Egyptian Bahariyya, Egyptian Siwa, two Algerian, and Syrian. The women are, left to right: Danya Malki, Rima al-Shawkani, Patricia Waller, Lamees al-Shawkani, Sarah Ransom McKenna, Mimi Keghida and her friend, and the author.
Lectures
Marjorie Ransom lectured about the traditional jewelry of the Middle East in Washington at the Society of Woman Geographers, the Middle East Institute, the Textile Museum, the Jerusalem Fund and the Bead Society of Greater Washington. She also spoke at the 20th Century Club in Pittsburgh, the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana and the Mingei Museum of International Art in San Diego, California and the Jefferson County Historical Society in Watertown, New York. She spoke about Yemeni traditional silver jewelry during the Yemeni Heritage Symposium at the Freer Gallery in Washington in September 2003.
Marjorie Ransom and Bassam Alkahouaji spoke at the Textile Museum on July 28, 2003 about the silver jewelry and textiles of the Middle East using live models to illustrate.
2018
“How Yemeni Traditional Jewelry Brought Power to Women,” Kendal at Hanover, Hanover, NH
“The Silversmiths of Yemen,” Yemenite Conference, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY
2016
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Tibbits Opera Foundation and Arts Council, Inc., Coldwater, MI
“Yemen Threads” part of the Yemen Peace Project Festival, New York University, New York, NY
“Yemen Threads” part of the Yemen Peace Project Festival, Textile Museum, Washington, DC
Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Walters Museum, Baltimore, MD
Anthony Bowen YMCA, Washington, DC
Dacor, an Organization of Foreign Affairs Professionals, Washington, DC
Georgetown Senior Center, Washington, DC
2014
The Hamilton Street Club, Baltimore, MD
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
The Freer-Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC
Bead Society of Greater Washington, Chevy Chase Community Center, Washington, DC
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern American Center, MEMEAC, New York, NY
Alwan for the Arts, New York, NY
The Jerusalem Fund, Washington, DC
The Jefferson County Historical Society, Watertown, NY
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC