YEMEN WEBDATE

Welcome to Yemen Links, your primary surf point for information on all aspects of Yemeni Studies. This site is arranged by category, following a listing of general sites giving information on Yemen. It includes scholarly and non-scholarly websites, on-line articles, including those in Yemen Update, as well as a variety of "home pages." The list is provided as a service to anyone interested in Yemen and is not intended as an endorsement of the specific information at external sites by AIYS or any of its officers or staff. AIYS is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. This is not a comprehensive list and will be continually updated and expanded. If you know of a site that should be placed here, or you find an error, please notify the webshaykh at Daniel.M.Varisco@hofstra.edu. Your help and comments will be greatly appreciated.

last updated 6/2007

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General Sites about Yemen

• Arab Datanet: Country Information on Yemen http://www.arabdatanet.com/country/profiles/profile.asp?CtryName=Yemen&CtryAbrv=ye

 

• BBC Timeline Yemen http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/middle_east/country_profiles/1706450.stm

 

• Columbia Encyclopedia: Yemen http://www.bartleby.com/65/ye/Yemen.html

 

• MENIC [Well balanced selection of important links] http://menic.utexas.edu/Countries_and_Regions/Yemen/

 

• Middle East Information Network: Yemen http://www.mideastinfo.com/yemen.htm

 

• National Geographic: Yemen http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_yemen.html

 

• Teleyemen http://www.y.net.ye/

• Virtually In Yemen [Canadian site with interesting links] http://www.ohmygosh.on.ca/stamps/yemen/ylinks.htm

• World Factbook [CIA] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ym.html

• World Wide Gazeteer - Yemen http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~c-allen/Countries/Yemen.htm

 

• Yemen Gateway [Most comprehensive site for current information on Yemen] http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/

 

• Yemen (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen

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Agriculture and Irrigation

 

• Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East (Ralph S. Hattox) http://www.hoboes.com/html/Politics/Prohibition/Notes/Coffee.html

• Fields in the City (FAO) http://www.fao.org/news/fotofile/ph9901-e.htm

 

• The Future of Terrace Farming in Yemen: A Development Dilemma http://www.aiys.org/webdate/terrace.html

 

• Indigenous Plant Protection in Yemen (Varisco et al.) http://www.aiys.org/webdate/plant1.html

 

• The Qatalog http://www.aiys.org/webdate/qatalog.html

 

• Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (Joy McCorriston) http://www.aiys.org/projects/agriculture.html

 

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Anthropology of Yemen

 

• Capturing History: Listening to Oral Narratives in Yemen (Tom Stevenson) http://www.worldandi.com/public/2002/january/teller.html

 

• Contemporary Wooden Fishing Craft of Yemen (Edward Prados) Yemen Update 40 (1998:5-8)

 

• A Pact of Brotherhood from Sufyân (Northern Yemen)" (Paul Dresch) http://cy.revues.org/document.html?id=134

• Qasidas on Cassettes (Flagg Miller) Yemen Update 39 (1997:25)

• Social Change in a Yemeni Highlands Town (T. Stevenson) http://www.aiys.org/webdate/amran.html

 

• Stars and Texts in Arabia." (D. Varisco) http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/ae16.html

 

• Structures sociales et légitimité politique dans la région d'Ibb: Matériaux pour une étude ethnographique (Karim Rahem) http://cy.revues.org/document127.html

 

• Traditions and modernities in Aden (Yemen): On studying complex Middle Eastern societies." (Susanne Dahlgren) http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/pao/dahlgren.html

 

• Transforming Cultural, Racial and Gender Categories: An Ethnographic Update on Social Relations in Two Northern Yemeni Communities." (Delores Walters) Yemen Update 37 (1995: 6-9)

 

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Arabic Language and Study Programs

 

• AMIDEAST http://www.amideast.org/

 

• Center for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies http://www.y.net.ye/cales/

 

• MALI (Modern American Language Institute http://www.arabicinyemen.com/

• Yemen Language Center http://www.ylcint.com/

 

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Architecture

 

• The 'Amiriya in Rada: The restoration of a sixteenth-century madrasa in the Yemen (Selma al-Radi) http://www.aiys.org/amiriya/

 

• The Architecture of Mud (Pamela Jerome, Caterina Borelli) http://www.aiys.org/projects/mud.html

 

• Conservation of the Old Walled City of Sana'a Republic of Yemen (T. Luke Young ) http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/AKPsite/4.239/sanaa/yemen.html

 

• Defensive Architecture in Yemen (David Warburton) Yemen Update 33 (1993:20,21]

 

• In the Shadow of a Master (TREVOR H. J. MARCHAND) http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/marchand02.htm

• Madrasa of al-Mu'tabiyya http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=7736

 

• Mosque and Madrasa of al-Ashrafiyya http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=7821

 

• Mosque of al-Muzaffariyya http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=7735

 

• Qudâd: The Traditional Yemeni Plaster (Selma al-Radi)Yemen Update 34 (1994:6-13)

 

• The Zabid Project (Edward Keall) http://www.aiys.org/projects/zabid.html

 

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 Birds

 

• Birds of Yemen (R. Porter) http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/porter93.htm

 

• INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ON SOCOTRA CORMORANTS (Simon Aspinall) http://www.arabianwildlife.com/archive/vol2.3/corres.htm

 

• Ornithological Society of the Middle East http://www.osme.org//index.html?

 

• Summary of the OSME Survey of Southern and Eastern Yemen and Socotra: Spring 1993. (P. Davidson) Yemen Update 36 (1995:12,33)

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Bibliography

• Bookshelf (Yemen Gateway) http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/biblio/bib.htm

• Aden Radio http://www.adenradio.net/

• Hadramawt Arabic Network http://www.hdrmut.net/

• Yemen Radio: Ida'a al-Jumhuriyya al-Yamaniyya http://www.yradio.gov.ye/

• Aden Free Zone http://www.adenfreezone.com/

• Case Study - Indigenous Technical Knowledge Among Yemeni Women in the Dhamar Montane Plains (IFAD) http://www.ifad.org/gender/thematic/livestock/live_ap1.htm

• In Yemen, Fighting Illiteracy Through Poetry (National Geographic News) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0127_040127_yemenliteracy.html

• Indigenous Plant Protection in Yemen (Varisco et al.) http://www.aiys.org/webdate/plant1.html

• Social Fund for Development http://www.sfd-yemen.org/

• UNDP in Yemen http://www.undp.org.ye/

• World Bank - Yemen http://www.worldbank.org.ye

• Central Bank of Yemen http://www.centralbank.gov.ye/

• General Investment Authority http://www.giay.org/

• Reformative process in the market and state in Yemen (Mohammad al-Maitami) [Yemen Gateway] http://www.al-bab.com/econ/maitami.htm

• Yemen's Economic Situation and its Relations with Korea (Seong Min Hong) http://hopia.net/kyc/book/y_perd_e1.htm#7

• Yemen Economic Trends and Outlook (US Dept. of Commerce, 1999) http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/1999/nea/yemen99_02.html

• Yemen Money http://www.zawya.com/money/ye/

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Education

• Aden University http://www.adenuniversity.edu.ye/

• Al-Ahgaff University http://www.ahgaff.edu/

• British Council in Yemen http://www.britcoun.org/yemen/

• Ibb University http://www.ibbunv.com.ye/

• National University http://www.nationaluni.net/index.php

 

• Queen Arwa University http://www.arwauniversity.edu.ye/

 

• Sanaa University http://www.suye.ac/

 

• Study Abroad in Yemen http://action2.edudirectories.com/sab_tango/sab.taf?country=Yemen

• Yemeni Scientific Research Foundation http://www.ysrf.org.ye/

 

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Embassies

 

• Embassy of the Republic of Yemen (Washington, DC) http://www.yemenembassy.org/

 

• Embassy of Yemen in the Netherlands http://www.ddh.nl/int/overheid/ambass/jemen.html

 

• US Embassy in Sanaa http://usembassy.state.gov/yemen/

 

• Yemen Embassy: Germany http://www.botschaft-jemen.de/

 

• Yemen Embassy: United Kingdom http://www.yemenembassy.org.uk/

 

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Emigration and Yemenis Abroad

 

• The Arabs in Southeast Asia (Omar Farouk Shaeik Ahmed) Yemen Update 33 (1993:42-43)

 

• Interview: Hamid Algadri (Cynthia Myntti) Yemen Update 34 (1994:14-19,44)

 

• SOAS Workshop on Hadrami Emigration (Linda Boxberger)Yemen Update 37 (1995:27)

 

• Yemenis Abroad (Yemen Times) http://www.yementimes.com/yemenis.htm

 

• The American Association of Yemeni Scientists and Professionals http://www.aaysp.org/ay/

 

• The Yemeni American League http://members.aol.com/yalnet/yemenis.htm

 

• The Yemeni Community in the UK (Mohammad Al Masyabi) http://www.caabu.org/press/focus/masyabi.html

 

• Yemeni Students Abroad http://www.ysaa.org/

 

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Environment and Biodiversity

 

 

 

• Environment (Yemen Gateway) http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/env/env.htm

• Forests in Yemen?! (Martin Herzog) http://members.aol.com/yalnet/forests.html

 

• Jabal 'Herzog (David Warburton) Yemen Update 30/31 (1992):29,37

• Naturalist in Socotra (Wolfgang Wranik)Yemen Update 36 (1995: 8-11)

• Yemen Energy and Environment Overview http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/yemen.html

 

• Yemen's water crisis (CHRISTOPHER WARD) http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/ward01.htm

 

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Flags

• 3DFlags.com: Yemen http://www.3dflags.com/html/en/icon/classic/y/yemen_2fawm.html

• Flags of the World: Yemen http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ye.html

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Folklore and Literature

• Amthâl Hadramiya (al-Shibami) http://www.alshibami.net/amthal/amthal.htm

• Capturing History: Listening to Oral Narratives in Yemen (Tom Stevenson)  http://www.worldandi.com/public/2002/january/teller.html

 

• Fenêtres sur la littérature yéménite contemporaine http://cy.revues.org/document142.html

 

• Some Yemeni Proverbs (Compiled by NAJLA ABU-TALEB) http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/abutaleb98.htm

• Yemen Poetry http://www.aiys.org/webdate/poetry.html

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Food and Drink

 

• Bint al-Sahn Recipe http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Recipes/HoneyCake.html

• Different Types of Yemeni Tea (Yemen Times, 1999) http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss07/culture.htm#3

 

• Hawayil (Yemeni Spice Mix) http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Recipes/YemeniSpiceMix.html

 

• Sweet Maria's [Yemeni Coffee] http://www.sweetmarias.com/coffee.arabia.yemen.html

 

• YEMEN beer labels gallery http://www.juni.com.pl/~beerlabel/jemen.html

 

• Yemeni Recipes http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/soc/food.htm

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Geology and Geography

 

• Paleontological Reconnaisance In Yemen." (Ian Tattersall, James M. Clark and Peter Whybrow) Yemen Update 37 (1995: 21-24)

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Government

 

• General Peoples Congress http://www.gpc.org.ye/

• House of Representatives http://www.parliament.gov.ye/

• Ministry of Information http://www.parliament.gov.ye/

• Survey Authority of Yemen http://www.survey-authority.gov.ye/

• The Yemeni State [Yemen Gateway] http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/gov/gov.htm

 

• Web Site of H.E. Ali Abdullah Saleh President of the Republic of Yemen http://www.presidentsaleh.ye/

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Health

 

• Introduction to Ethnomedicine: Examples from Yemen (Beth Kangas) Yemen Update 35 (1994: 22-27)

• Murshidât ,Midwives and Nurses: Women Transforming Health Care and Social Relations in Yemen (Delores Walters)Yemen Update 40 (1998:32)

 

• WHO Country Profile for Health http://www.who.int/country/yem/en/

  

 

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Human Rights

 

• The State of Human Rights in Yemen (Amnesty International) http://web2.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE310011997

• Yemen: Human Rights Developments http://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/mideast/yemen.html

 

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Internet and Computing

 

• Arabic Computing (YemenNet) http://members.aol.com/yalnet/computer.htm

• Network Resources for the Middle East Scholar http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/institutter/smi/ksv/NetResources.html  

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Islam in Yemen

 

• Conversations with a Religious Shaykh [Yemen Times] Yemen Update 36 (1995:7,11)

 

• A Clash of Fundamentalisms (Shelagh Weir) http://www.merip.org/mer/mer204/weir.htm

 

• Reflections on Yemen, Islam and Violence (MUHAMMAD AL-MASYABI) http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/masyabi99.htm

 

• Les Salafis au Yémen ou… la modernisation malgré tout (François Burgat et Mu/hammad Sbitli) http://cy.revues.org/document137.html

 

• Sheikh Abdullah Ali al-Hakimi (Dick Lawless) http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/lawless93.htm

 

• The Underground Friends of God and their Adversaries: A Case Study and Survey of Sufism in Contemporary Yemen (David Buchman) Yemen Update 39 (1997:21-24)

 

• What is the Koran (Toby Lester in Atlantic Monthly) http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/koran.htm

 

• A Zaydi Revival ? (Bernard Haykel) Yemen Update 36 (1995: 20-21)

 

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Judaism in Yemen

 

• The Contribution Of Yemenite Jewish Writings To Yemenite History (Yosef Tobi) Yemen Update 33 (1993: 32-33)

• The Jews of Yemen (M. Bard)http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/anti-semitism/yemenjews.html

 

• The Music of the Yemenite Jews http://members.aol.com/yalnet/yemjew.html

 

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Law

 

 

 

• Islamic Tax Law (1956) http://www.aiys.org/webdate/taxes.html

 

• Yemen Guide to Law (Library of Congress) http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/yemen.html

 

• Yemen: Family Law [Emory University site] http://www.law.emory.edu/IFL/legal/yemen.htm

 

• Yemen Law (International Constitutional Law) http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/ym__indx.html

 

• Yemen Law Firms http://www.hg.org/firms-yemen.html

 

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Maps of Yemen

 

• Free Blank Outline Map of Yemen http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxyemen.htm?once=true&

 

• Lonely Planet Map http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/middle_east/yemen/yemen.htm

 

• Maps of Yemen [Yemen Gateway] http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/maps.htm

 

• Yemen Maps (University of Texas) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/yemen.html

 

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Media and Film

 

 

• Cannon-fodder - "Rules of Engagement" (Chris Doyle) http://www.caabu.org/press/articles/review_of_rules.html

 

• Yemen: Captured Visions. A Filmography (Stevenson) http://www.aiys.org/webdate/film.html

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Music and Dance

 

• Ahmad Fathi http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss07/culture.htm#2

 

• Al-Yaman (Prague Indies music group) http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/artist/content.artist/al-yaman_43394

 

• Azaal City: Yemeni Music http://azaalcity.com/yemenmusic.htm

 

• Bara‘ Drumming http://members.aol.com/yalnet/bera.wav

 

• Dancing in Yemen: Part 2 - EL AROUS http://www.gildedserpent.com/articles13/dancingyemen2jalilah.htm

• Fadl Kuraidi http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss01/culture.htm#2

• Faisal Alawi http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss02/culture.htm#2

 

• Iskander Thabet: A Monument in Modern Yemeni Music History [Yemen Times] Yemen Update 36 (1995:13,21)

 

• Muhammed Mahmud Al-Harithi: AN EMBODIMENT OF 50 YEARS OF YEMENI MUSIC [Yemen Times] Yemen Update 33 (1993:30-31)

 

• The Music of the Yemenite Jews http://members.aol.com/yalnet/yemjew.html

 

• MUSIQUES DU YEMEN, RECHERCHE ET CONSERVATION (JEAN LAMBERT ) http://www.univ-aix.fr/cfey/actu/music.html

 

• Najib Saeed Thabet http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss03/culture.htm#2

 

• Ofra Haza Discography http://www.rahul.net/hrmusic/discos/ohdisc.html

 

• Rediscovering Yafiee Songs  Through Yahya Omer Al-Yafiee (Yemen Times, 1999) http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss10/culture.htm#1

 

• The Secrets of Al-Khallool (Yemen Times) http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss20/culture.htm

 

• Sounds From Yemen http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/6552/sounds.htm

 

• Traditional Music in the Yemen (A. D. Bakewell) http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/bakewell95.htm

 

• World Music: Yemen: Chewing Qat http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/world/yemen.htm

 

• Yemen - Traditional Music http://www.medieval.org/music/world/yemen.html

 

• Yemeni Mowashaha http://www.yementimes.com/99/iss05/culture.htm#2

• The Yemenite Troupe (Moshav Amka) http://www.israel-folklore.com/ 

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Oil and Mineral Resources

 

 

• Yemen (United States Energy Information Administration) http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/yemen.html

 

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Photographs of Yemen

 

• Around the World in 80 Clicks: Yemen http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/asia/yemen.shtml

 

• Gentes del Yemen http://www.fotoaleph.com/Exposiciones/GentesYemen/GentesYemen-portada.html#GentesYemen

 

• Images from Yemen (Ashtal Travel) http://www.ashtal.com/images.html

 

• Images of Arabia (J.-F. Troin) http://geogweb.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/TroinArabia/TroinArabia.html

 

• Der Jemen (B. Gruber) http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/6677/

 

• Harry's Resources http://www.zingel-online.de/yemen/index.htm

 

• Jorge's Photos of Yemen http://www.jorgetutor.com/yemen/yemen.htm

 

• NASA Visible Earth http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2148

 

• North Yemen Memory Pictures 1980-1981 http://medlem.spray.se/wilhelmvs/index.html

 

• Photos From Yemen http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/6552/photos.htm

 

• A Pictorial Visit to Yemen http://nabataea.net/ylifestyle.html

 

• Picture Galleries (Yemen Explorer Tours) http://www.al-bab.com/yet/pictures.htm

 

• The Roads of Arabia Felix: Photo Galleries http://www.ftiyemen.com/photos.htm

 

• Studio Maréchaux http://www.studiomarechaux.com/

 

• Suwar Mudun Yamaniya (al-Shibami)http://www.alshibami.net/yepic/yepic.htm

 

• Yémen - Février 2000 http://www.marches-lointaines.com/yemen/yemen.htm

 

• Yemen in Pictures http://members.aol.com:/yalnet/pictures.htm

 

• Yemen (Nicola Ferettto) http://www.nicnic.it/yemen/index.html

 

• Yemen Pictures http://www.bugbog.com/gallery/galleryyemen/yemendoor.html

 

• Yemen Web Photos http://www.yemenweb.com/gallery/

Plants

 

• Botany, Incense, and Myrrh." (Barthey)Yemen Update 39 (1997:52-53)

 

• Orchids in Yemen (Barbara Evans)Yemen Update 40 (1998:33-36)

 

Sports

 

• Naseem Hamed http://members.aol.com/yalnet/naseem1.htm

 

• Sports (YemenNet) http://members.aol.com/yalnet/sports.htm

 

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Stamps

 

• A Listing of Many of Bruce Conde's Articles about Yemen http://www.ohmygosh.on.ca/stamps/yemen/conde.htm

 

• Index to Yemen Stamps http://www.ohmygosh.on.ca/stamps/yemen/ryemen.htm

 

• PDRY Stamps (1974-1976) http://www.ohmygosh.on.ca/stamps/yemen/pdry74_6.htm

 

• The Right 'Stamp of Approval' (Allen Kepchar) http://www.state.gov/www/publications/statemag/statemag_may/feature6.html

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Weather and Climate

 • Annual Rainfall: Yemen (map) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/yemen_rainfall_2002.jpg

• National Weather Service: Yemen http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/YE_cc.html

 

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Wildlife Conservation [Also, see Birds]

 

• Animal Info -Yemen http://www.animalinfo.org/country/yemen.htm

 

• ARABIA FELIX (Chris and Tilde Stuart) in Arabian Wildlife http://www.arabianwildlife.com/archive/vol3.2/felix.htm

 

• Arabian Wildlife On Line http://www.arabianwildlife.com/

  

• FAO DESERT LOCUST BULLETIN NO. 252: GENERAL SITUATION DURING SEPTEMBER1999 http://www.fao.org/NEWS/GLOBAL/LOCUSTS/252bull/252bull.htm

• Tracking Locusts in Yemen (G. Popov) http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/popov98.htm

•Wildlife and Conservation in Eastern Yemen." (Michael Jennings)Yemen Update 34 (1994:20-22)

• Wildlife conservation initiatives in Yemen British-Yemeni Society Journal (December ) [Derek Harvey] http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/harvey99.htm

• Yemen (Wildlife Tourism) Jack Jackson http://www.arabianwildlife.com/archive/vol2.2/yem.htm

• Case Study - Indigenous Technical Knowledge Among Yemeni Women in the Dhamar Montane Plains (IFAD) http://www.ifad.org/gender/thematic/livestock/live_ap1.htm

• Hijab in Yemen Traditions (A. H. Nasr) http://www.yementimes.com/98/iss20/culture.htm

• Living in Yemen: Part I - Tafruta (Lorraine Zamora Chamas) http://www.gildedserpent.com/articles12/livinginyemen.htm

• Women in Ancient Yemen (David Warburton) Yemen Update 36 (1995:23,33)

• Women National Committee http://www.yemeni-women.org.ye/

• Yemeni women police force (Capt. Saleh Al Duais) http://www.hdii.de/y-women.html