Alison Shan Price

Alison Shan Price
Alison Shan Price MBE is the creator of The Middle East & Victoria’s Women, a series built on archival evidence and detailing the evolving worldview of women travellers through the Near/Middle East. Founder and director of the polycultural One World Actors Centre, Alison works between UK and Kuwait producing and directing shows, inclusive of acclaimed bilingual productions. In 2017, Alison was awarded the MBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and in 2020 Alison was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

A Pilgramage to Nejd: Lady Anne Blunt (1823-1917)
The daughter of the first computer programmer (Lady) Ada Lovelace, granddaughter of Lord Byron and mentor of Gertrude Bell CBE, Lady Anne Blunt travelled Arabia with her husband Wilfred, in the nineteenth century, in the search of the perfect horse. Dressed in male Arabian attire and carrying a rifle, her journeys around the Arabian Peninsula took her to the House of Saud, the House of Rashid, and the Euphrates to live with its tribes and to London to argue with the Royal Geographical Society about non-existent places on their maps. The founder of the Crabbet Stud in the UK, and the Sheykh Obeyd Stud in Cairo, Lady Anne chose to make Egypt her final home