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Yemen Update Redux: "A Zaydi Revival"
Yemen Update Redux is a site archiving articles from earlier copies of Yemen Update. Check out the article entitled "A Zaydi Revival" by...


New Thesis on Zaydi Governance
Congratulations to Ekaterina (Kate) Puhkovaia for a successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis entitled "BETWEEN SULTANS AND IMAMS: THE...


New Book on Yemeni Rock Art
AIYS is pleased to announce that the 2021 ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Maqaliḥ Book Award is published and now available. His book entitled al-Rusūm...


Tribes in Modern Yemen book published
Congratulations to AIYS members Najwa Adra, Steven Caton and Dan Varisco for their articles on Yemeni tribes in this new book, edited by...


New Article on South Arabian Landscape
Abstract Aim Dryland ecosystems, such as those in southern Arabia, are particularly vulnerable to climate and land-use change....


Al-Gabali Book on Yemeni Tribal Customary Law
The first book published in the ‘Abd al-Aziz al-Maqaleh Book Award of AIYS was Aḥmad al-Gabalī Qāmūs al-‘urf al-qabalī fī al-Yaman (2018)...


Introducing Yemen Update Redux
In 1991 the AIYS Newsletter was renamed Yemen Update and reached 32 pages. The last few print issues, before the print edition ended in...
New Arabic article on Yemen Update
A new article in Arabic on the impact of the war on Yemeni university students has been uploaded to Yemen Update Online. Click here to be...


Al-Hamdānī's Iklīl, vol. 10 Online
To upload this pdf, click here: https://wadod.net/bookshelf/book/3138


Books and Manuscripts on Yemen
A major resource for pdfs of books and manuscripts can be found on the website of https://ketabpedia.com. For the Yemeni books, click...


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...
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