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Yemeni Architecture Books

The Architecture of Yemen & its Reconstruction, Laurence King Publishing, London 2020 Hassan Fathy, Earth & Utopia, Salma Samar Damluji...

Library of Dr. C. G. Brouwer

The Dutch scholar C. G. Brouwer. who has made a major contribution to our knowledge of Mocha and the Dutch experience in Yemen, has...

Yemeni Books Online

There are several online sources with pdfs of Arabic books on Yemen. One of these is Al-Yaman al-Maymūn with a variety of searchable...

Aden Hinterland Freed?

"A picturesque ceremony took place recently {1919] at Lahej, the capital of the Aden hinterland, on the occasion of the restoration to...

Arabic Translation of Flagg Miller's Book on Yemeni Poetry and the Media

AIYS congratulates Flagg Miller on the publication in Arabic of his earlier book.

Al-Saqqaf on Hadrami Architecture

Dr. Abobakr Al-Sakkaf is an assistant professor at Hadhramout University. He received his PhD in Architectural Engineering from the...

Picturing Yemen with Giovanni Canova

The Italian scholar Giovanni Canova recently (2019) published a book of photographs he took in Yemen during the 1980s. Here are just a...

The Ḥaḍramawt in 1931

The Dutch civil servant David van der Meulen and the German explorer Hermann von Wissman visited the Ḥaḍramawt in 1931 and apparently...

Lady Elwood in Hodeidah in 1825

Between 1825 and 1828 an English lady named Anne Katharine Elwood accompanied her husband, a colonel in the British service, to India. On...

New Book on Trade in South Arabia

A new book has just been published on the long-distance trade of South Arabia by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It is also possible to...