1974 French Film on Yemen
There is a wonderful short 30-minute film in French on Yemen from 1974, half a century ago. The title is "Arts et Traditions Populaires...
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Film on the Young YAR
There is a 13 minute video posted on Youtube from British Movietone and taken during the early days of the revolution that created the...
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Yemen Antiquities and Museums
Yemen's General Organization of Antiquities and Museums has a Facebook Page . It features information, videos and images from the museum...
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Early Ottoman Photograph in Yemen
This is an Ottoman photograph showing the Ottoman Ahmad Faydi Pasha. Two of the Yemeni dignitaries are Shaykh ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḍul‘ī and...
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Humayni Poetry of Sanaa
This Website lists 36 Humayni poets of Sanaa. Click here for the entire list.
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دراسات في تاريخ اليمن الاسلامي
In 2002 AIYS published a book of excerpts from Western scholars on the history of Islamic Yemen translated into Arabic. The translator...
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Film on Yemeni Architecture
This is a charming short documentary on a traditional Yemeni builder in Ṣan‘ā'. To watch the film on Youtube, click here.
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Library of San‘a Great Mosque
The library of the San‘a Great Mosque has a Facebook site. Check it out for illustrations of manuscripts and information on the collection.
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رمضان في الستينيات في اليمن
أجواء رمضان في اليمن زمان عادات يمنية قديمة وأكلات يمنية يفضلها اليمنيون في شهر رمضان، كيف يستقبل اليمنيون شهر رمضان؟ يخبرنا عنها ضيف...
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From Damascus to Sanaa in 1936
In 1936 a Syrian agricultural engineer named Aḥmad Waṣfī Zakariyā visited Yemen at the invitation of Imam Yaḥyā. He stayed in Yemen for...
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Waqf in Zaydi Yemen
The masterful study of the institution of waqf in Zaydi Yemen by Eirik Hovden is available to download in open access from Brill. Based...
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Old Photographs of Yemen
Check this out for a treasury of old photographs of Yemen. From the Facebook site of Elisabeth Wojnarski.
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Yemen in Photos
Although Yemen is not that "happy" these days, this is a collection of photographs taken by IRc workers and published by the IRC. There...
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History of Hasan Pasha
The Ottoman governor of Yemen known as Hasan Pasha (d. 1607 CE) wrote a history of Yemen, which is available online in Latin translation...
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