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Yemenite Jewish Silverwork
Read the article online here: https://www.hagalil.com/2016/06/yemenite-jewellery/


Yemeni Architecture Books
The Architecture of Yemen & its Reconstruction, Laurence King Publishing, London 2020 Hassan Fathy, Earth & Utopia, Salma Samar Damluji...


Library of Dr. C. G. Brouwer
The Dutch scholar C. G. Brouwer. who has made a major contribution to our knowledge of Mocha and the Dutch experience in Yemen, has...


Muẓaffar Mosque Minbar
Courtesy of Dr. Mohammed Jarhoom


The Fortress Ḥuṣn al-Zakātīn
From the Facebook site of Fahad Ismā‘īl al-Anbārī


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...


1856 Photo in Aden
Courtesy of Mohammed Jarhoom


Yemen at the Walters Art Gallery
The Walters Art Gallery, located in Baltimore, Maryland, has placed most of its art objects, including manuscript pages, online. There...


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...


Images of Socotra, Mocha and Luhayya
In 1829 Captain Charles Francklin Head set out from Bombay for the Red Sea. His sailing vessel passed by Socotra, Aden, Mocha and...


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...


The Ḥaḍramawt in 1931
The Dutch civil servant David van der Meulen and the German explorer Hermann von Wissman visited the Ḥaḍramawt in 1931 and apparently...


Yemen in 1901
The German explorer Hermann Burchardt visited Yemen in 1901 and took photographs, including those of Yemenite Jews. Several of these...


Yemeni Fashion in 1873
It is rare to find photographs of Yemenis in the 19th century, especially ordinary people and not members of the elite. A series of...


Lady Elwood in Hodeidah in 1825
Between 1825 and 1828 an English lady named Anne Katharine Elwood accompanied her husband, a colonel in the British service, to India. On...
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