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Sumaiya Hamdani on the Sulayhids
A lecture by AIYS member Sumaiya Hamdani.


The Alamree Photo Archive
The photo archive of Hussain Alamree is a national treasure for all Yemenis. Check out this article on Alamree and his archive of...


Yemeni Comic Ahmed Al-Kadri
(Washington, D.C., October 3, 2023) The Arab America Foundation is excited to announce that Yemeni American comedian, Ahmed Al-Kadri, has...


تاج العروس لالزبيدي
To access an online version of this classic lexicon, click here. Below is an article on its importance. من مجلة العربي، #٦٠ ، ١٩٦٣


A Sailor and His Camel Ride
[Illustration: Arabian Camel from George Shaw, Zoology (1801)] [Joseph Osgood was a Black American sailor who visited the Yemeni port of...


Biography of Shaykh Mujahid Haydar
Congratulations to Marieke Brandt, who has just published a fascinating biography of Shaykh Mujahid Haydar of the Sufyan tribe. Her work...


Yemen in the 1930s
To see the photographs, click here.


Rasulid Astronomical Manuscript Online
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Abū al-‘Uqūl was a court astronomer for al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad Dāwūd and flourished around 1300 CE. His masterful set of...


Book by the Yemeni Poet al-Baradduni
One of the major Yemeni poets of the last generation was ‘Abd Allāh al-Baraddūnī. Many of his books are available online, and here is one...


Lecture on Yemeni Inscriptions
موعدنا غدًا، الخميس، الموافق 14.09.2023، الساعة السادسة مساء، في مؤسسة عبدالحميد شومان-الأردن-عمان. ولخارج عمان ممكن متابعتها عن طريق...


Late 19th Century Yemeni Gabili from Ibb
Eduard Glaser visited Yemen four times between October, 1882 and Spring, 1894. His writing on the late Ottoman era in Yemen, written in...


Isma‘il al-Akwa‘ on the Zaydis
A pdf of this study of Zaydi Islam in Yemen by Qāḍī Ismā‘īl al-Akwa‘ is available online.


Lecture on South Arabian
A lecture by Muhammad Atboush on the relation of South Arabian to the Qu'ran is online.


أجمل ما غنى عملاق الفن | محمد حمود الحارثي
Music of one of the great Yemeni musicians on Youtube.


Hadramawt Book Fair
From the Facebook site of Mohammed Jarhoom.


Crown Prince Ahmad, 1947
Two photographs taken in 1947 of then Crown Prince Ahmad in Taiz. (Source: Andrew Wheatcroft, Arabia and the Gulf: In Original...


Zigzagging Yemen in 1911
In 1911 a book was published by an American missionary who traveled across Arabia and had visited Yemen as early as 1890 when the British...


New MA Thesis on Pre-Islamic Yemen
From the Facebook Page of Salah al-Husaini.


Ransom Yemeni Jewelry Collection
Congratulations to honorary AIYS member Marjorie Ransom, whose wonderful collection of Yemeni jewelry is now on display at Indiana...
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