Ambassador Ahmed Barakat is deceased.

Arab Sea Newspaper - Follow-ups

Arab Sea - Yemen - Follow-ups: The engineer, writer, minister, and ambassador Ahmed Qaed Barakat has passed away at the age of 91. The deceased was born in historical Sana'a in 1934 and was among the students of the 1947 mission to Lebanon. He obtained his high school diploma from Egypt, then received his university education in Britain from the University of Birmingham in mining engineering, and also obtained a diploma from the Imperial College - University of London - in petroleum engineering. After graduating, he worked with a number of European and American companies in the field of oil and mineral exploration between 1959 - 1963. He then returned to Yemen, where he was appointed Director-General of Industry and Mineral Resources in 1963. He then worked in a number of Arab institutions in Yemen and the Arabian Gulf from 1964 - 1966. In 1969, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, then Minister of Information and National Culture, and Chairman of the Sana'a Cooperation Authority during the period 1970 - 1972, then Yemen's Ambassador to West Germany. He then returned to Yemen to be appointed Minister of State and Chairman of the General Corporation for Oil and Mineral Resources and a member of the Founding People's Council from 1978 - 1980. He was also appointed Minister of Economy and Industry from 1986 - 1988, then Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Bank of Yemen from 1987 - 1991, and finally Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yemen Airways in 1992. Professor Ahmed Qaed Barakat has many publications, most notably his memoirs (in three parts), and his intellectual books such as: "Why Backwardness," "The Development Dilemma," "Horizons of Democracy," "The Yemeni Journey," "Oil in Yemen," and "Minerals in Yemen." He also published collections of short stories, most notably: "Houses of the Moon" (three houses), "The Donkey of Al-Rawdah," "The Disfigured," and "The Night Asaad Al-Kamil Appeared." May God have mercy on Professor Ahmed Qaed Barakat, one of Yemen's prominent figures, a pioneer of its development path, and the author of leading literary, intellectual, and poetic contributions. His body will be buried this afternoon, Monday, in the Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmar cemetery, after prayers are performed for him at Al-Tawhid Mosque, next to the Lebanese Hospital, after the noon prayer. Condolences will be held in the Amasi Hall next to Al-Bashiri roundabout.