Juan Cole published an oped I wrote on the need to provide seeds for Yemeni farmers to grow more food under the current famine threat,...

My article on the kidnapped in Mecca during the mid-14th century of the Rasulid sultan al-Malik al-Mujāhid ‘Alī has been published in...

At the annual MESA meeting in December, 2021, AIYS Board Member Waleed Mahdi organized a panel entitled Challenges and Possibilities of...

AIYS Board Member Nathalie Peutz has recently published an online article on Yemeni minorities and refugees in the past decade. Check it...

AIYS member Brinkley Messick will be giving an online talk on February 1. Details at https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/islamicbooks/religio...

AIYS congratulates members Joy McCorriston and Michael Harrower for winning the Award for Fieldwork Reports of the AIA. Their text is...

Each year, the American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) holds a competition for U.S. scholars of all disciplines to apply for a...

Mayor Amer Ghaleb of Hamtramck, Michigan with AIYS Board Member Abdulhakem Alsadah.

AIYS member Dr. Lily Filson reroutes religious loot through the 6th and 8th centuries, via the Teak Column of al-Qalis, produced in...

Yemen Update 2020 is now online and ready to accept articles in English or Arabic. Starting this year, an added feature is Yemen Update...

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Congratulations to AIYS Board Member Nathalie Peutz for her new article: "Crisis as Preexisting Condition: Yemen Between Cholera,...

AIYS fellow Gabriel Lavin gave a talk on December 2 for the British-Yemeni Society on his research regarding the history of the music...

From the Facebook page of Aisha Jumaan. AIYS contributed to the preservation of the Amiriyya with the work of Selma al-Radi.

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British-Yemeni Society Lecture by Zoom YEMENI CULTURE: AN EXPLORATION OF ADENI MUSIC IN THE LATE COLONIAL PERIOD Thursday, 2nd December...

A number of useful and important articles exist in past issues of Yemen Update that are not online. In Yemen Update Redux two articles...

There are several panels and papers on Yemen at the online MESA this year. For the entire program, go to https://mesana.org/mymesa/meetin...

A new publication from I. B. Tauris has several articles on Yemen, including an article on Yemen's political economy by former AIYS...