Congratulations to the Yemeni historian Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥim Jāzim for publication of a new edition of the travelogue of the 13th...

To download a pdf of the article, go to https://www.aiys.org/update2020-2021

The Abdulaziz al-Maqaleh Book Award for Yemeni Heritage is available for any Yemeni scholar living in Yemen. The deadline for submitting...

Congratulations to Walid Al-Murisi, who received an AIYS Yemeni fellowship in 2020, on publication of his article in Plos One.

The Yemeni recipients of the 2022 AIYS fellowships met in Sanaa and gave presentations of their proposed research. Read about it here:

Congratulations to Stacey Philbrick Yadav, AIYS treasurer, for publication of her new book with Hurst Publishers. Below is a brief...

Congratulations to AIYS member Lily Filson for publication of her new book. Details here:

AIYS Board Member Dan Mahoney has just published an article called "Medieval Reports of the Preservation and Looting of Pre-Islamic...

يدعم المعهد الاميركي للدراسات اليمنية الباحثين اليمنيين من خلال تقديم منح صغيرة ( تصل الى 1,500 دولار اميركي) لكل بحث. من يحق له التقدم...

Click here to register. Note that the time announced is for Sanaa. This event will be conducted in Arabic.

Plowing in al-Ahjur, 1978. Photography by Daniel Martin Varisco A new article has been published on Yemen Update Online for 2022. This is...

On Saturday, June 25, AIYS Secretary Flagg Miller spoke to the Yafi'i community in NYC. Flagg conducted research in a Yafi'i community in...

In 2022 two AIYS Book Awards in honor of Abdulaziz al-Maqaleh have been chosen. PDFs of each book will be available outside Yemen for a...

To order this book, go to https://www.gorgiaspress.com/yemeni-manuscript-cultures-in-peril.

Congratulations to AIYS Board Member Dan Mahoney for publishing an article on the role of obituaries in Rasulid Yemen. Dan was also...

Anthropologist Brinkley Messick will present the following Zoom talk: Sharīʿa Genres and their Writers in Imamic Yemen أجناس من الشريعة...

The American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) was founded in 1978 to promote research on Yemen, preserve Yemeni heritage, and promote...

Mohamed Saleh Al-Haj and AIYS member Lily Filson have published the article "Ibb's Grand Mosque: Heritage at Risk in Yemen's Hinterland...

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...