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Talk on Ancient Yemen
Description Register here Ancient Yemen was a cultural and economic hub that reached its height between the 1st millennium BCE and the...


Water Management in Yemen Talk
On Monday, May 20, 2024, at 16:00 (Central European Time), the fifth lecture in the Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series will take place...


مستقبل الثقافة الشعبية في اليمن
الأخوات والإخوة الكرام، السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته، تدعوكم منظمة الأكاديميين والمهنيين اليمنيين لحضور فعاليتها السابعة...


Yemenis in Dearborn, Michigan
The article can be read on the BBC website.


Al-Ashraf's 13th Century Astronomical Text
The third Rasulid sultan, al-Malik al-Ashrāf ‘Umar, wrote a major astronomical text called al-Tabṣira fī ‘ilm al-nujūm. The German...


Wedding in Ta‘izz, 1951
A wedding couple in Ta‘izz in 1951. From the Facebook Site اليمن ارض الحضارة


Lecture on Tihama "Saints" in Rasulid Yemen
For information on online registration, click here.


SRF Yemeni Scholar: Mohammed Almahfali
For more details, click here.


Kawkaban dam
From the Facebook Page of Fahad al-Anbari This dam dates back to the Ayyubid era and provides water for a hammam. It is being repaired by...


Yemeni Artist Alia Ali
To register for her free talk in Chicago, click here. Examples of Alia's art are on her website. Below is an example from her website.


The Scholar al-Firuzabadi
Above: Autograph of the scholar al-Fīrūzābādī. One of the major Islamic scholars of the Rasulid era in Yemen was Muḥammad b. Ya‘qūb...


رمضان في الستينيات في اليمن
أجواء رمضان في اليمن زمان عادات يمنية قديمة وأكلات يمنية يفضلها اليمنيون في شهر رمضان، كيف يستقبل اليمنيون شهر رمضان؟ يخبرنا عنها ضيف...


Ottoman Photograph of Yemeni
From the Facebook page of Mohammed Jarhoom


Tim MacIntosh-Smith in Arabic
One of the most gifted writers on Yemen is the British savant Tim MacIntosh- Smith, who lived in Yemen for decades. His most recent book,...


The Yemeni Poet al-Maqaleh in 1960s
Form the Facebook Page اليمن ارض الحضارة


From Damascus to Sanaa in 1936
In 1936 a Syrian agricultural engineer named Aḥmad Waṣfī Zakariyā visited Yemen at the invitation of Imam Yaḥyā. He stayed in Yemen for...


Lecture on Early Zaydis
On Tuesday, 27 February, Christian Sahner (Oxford University) will discuss his current book project on rebellion, conversion, and state...


Marjorie Ransom on Youtube
The online talk by Marjorie Ransom, an honorary member of AIYS, on her book delivered on Feb. 7 about Yemeni silver jewelry is now...


More Yemen photos by Pascal and Maria Maréchaux
Some incredible photographs taken in Yemen by Pascal and Maria Maréchaux on their Facebook page Yemen Genesis.


Waqf in Zaydi Yemen
The masterful study of the institution of waqf in Zaydi Yemen by Eirik Hovden is available to download in open access from Brill. Based...
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