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Yemeni Americans: A Panel Discussion
At the annual MESA meeting in December, 2021, AIYS Board Member Waleed Mahdi organized a panel entitled Challenges and Possibilities of...


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


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


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


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


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


The Teak Column of al-Qalis
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
Yemen Update 2020 is now online and ready to accept articles in English or Arabic. Starting this year, an added feature is Yemen Update...


New Article in Yemen Update Online
To download and read this article, click here.


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


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


The Amariyya in Rida‘
From the Facebook page of Aisha Jumaan. AIYS contributed to the preservation of the Amiriyya with the work of Selma al-Radi.


Women's Inclusion in Yemen
To read this report online or download a pdf click here.


Nancy Um on Yemeni and Spanish Coins
For Information on this upcoming lecture, click here.
Aden's Musical Past
British-Yemeni Society Lecture by Zoom YEMENI CULTURE: AN EXPLORATION OF ADENI MUSIC IN THE LATE COLONIAL PERIOD Thursday, 2nd December...


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


Yemen at MESA 2021
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...


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


New Publication on a Yemeni Almanac
AIYS President Dan Varisco has just published an article on a late copy of Rasulid almanac lore. This can be read or downloaded on the...


Dan Mahoney on al-Hamdani
Congratulations to AIYS Board Member Dan Mahoney for his recently published article. The volume with this article is available as open...
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