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Archaeology Fieldwork Award
AIYS congratulates members Joy McCorriston and Michael Harrower for winning the Award for Fieldwork Reports of the AIA. Their text is...


AIYS Fellowships for American Citizens
Each year, the American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) holds a competition for U.S. scholars of all disciplines to apply for a...


Yemeni Mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan
Mayor Amer Ghaleb of Hamtramck, Michigan with AIYS Board Member Abdulhakem Alsadah.


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


New Article in Yemen Update Online
To download and read this article, click here.


Man from Aden, 1880
From the Facebook Site of Hussain Alamree


Ibb Now and Then
Google Translate messed up the timing of the bottom photo: it is from 2021.


Women's Inclusion in Yemen
To read this report online or download a pdf click here.


Talks on Yemen from Leibniz
The Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient is offering two online lectures about Yemen in October. One is by Marina de Regt and the other by...


Najwa Adra on Yemeni Tribalism
Congratulations to AIYS member Najwa Adra for her recent article in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.


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...


Waleed Mahdi on Valentino's Ghost
AIYS Board Member will be discussing this new film on a FREE ZOOM event if you are interested. Advanced registration is required to...


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...


Flagg Miller on Hunger Strikes
For details, click here: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/isa/detail/event-detail/isa-online-guest-lecture-flagg-miller


Yemeni Film on Education Crisis
Yemen remains the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and children are the primary victims of this severe crisis. Over 4.7 million...


More Yemeni Fellows 2021
A meeting was held on Wednesday, August 4 at the AIYS premises for the second group of researchers receiving the 2021 AIYS fellowship...


Poetry of al-Baradduni Online
For the work of the Yemeni poet al-Baraddūnī, check out this website: https://www.albaradouni.com.


Yemeni Fellows 2021
A meeting was held in the AIYS premises for the Yemeni researchers who received the fellowship grant of 2021. The researchers were...


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...


Imagine if the British chose Socotra over Aden
Captain Haines of the Royal British Navy purchased the port of Aden from the sultan of Lahj in 1837, returning in January 1839 with 700...
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