Music/Dance

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...

Yemeni Music in Cairo

Check out this recent concert of Yemeni music at the Cairo Opera House on Youtube.

AIYS Yemeni Fellowships 2023

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

Al-Jazeera Film on Rural Yemen

There is a nice film on rural life in Yemen by al-Jazeera, now available on Youtube.

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...

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...

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...

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)...

World Heritage Day, April 18

Sanaa On World Heritage Day we celebrate the incredibly rich heritage, tangible and intangible, of Yemen through the ages and through 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...

al-Anisi classic song

There are many classic Yemeni songs on Youtube, but one of my favorites is the following by ‘Alī al-Anisī: Ṭāb al-liqā'. This is the...

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