Food and Drink

AIYS BOOK AWARD EXTENDED

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

Honey in Yemen

Al Jazeera has an article on the impact of the war on honey production in Yemen. There are several photos of hives and honey. Click here...

New Article on Yemen Update Online

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

Yemen Keeps on Plowing

Yemen has been an agricultural wonder for over three thousand years and once was considered the breadbasket of Arabia, supplying grain to...

Seeds for Yemen

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,...

Qat and Corona and More

The online journal Sawt Alamal, with sections in Arabic and English, published several articles on qat in Yemen over the past year.

Carob in Yemen

From the Facebook Page of Mohammed Jarhoum

Yemeni Research in Halle

The library of the Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle-Wittenberg has uploaded over 300 books in German, with a few in English, that can...

Semiotics of Qat

Congratulations to Dr. Nabil Mohammed Nasser Salem of Al-Baha University for his recent article entitled "A Socio-semiotic Analysis of...

Yemenis in Diaspora

The Middle East Institute will be presenting a Zoom session on Yemenis in Diaspora this Thursday. You can learn more about this and...

2021 Yemeni Short Film Festival

There is currently a free showing online of recent short Yemen films. The films are in Arabic with English (not always accurate)...

Coffee in Ottoman and Safavid Lands

Yemen was the earliest part of the Middle East where coffee was grown and exported from. Here is a video narrated by Farshid Enami on the...

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