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Aden in 1864
From the Facebook Page of Mohammed Jarhoum. Note the number of sailboats in the harbor.


Sanaa Merchants a Century Ago
An amazing photo from a Facebook Site devoted to old photographs of Yemen.


Yemen at the Arab American Museum
The Arab American National Museum is located in Dearborn, Michigan, which has a large population of Yemeni Americans. The museum has just...


Spinning Cotton in Sanaa
Always ignore the Google translation... My thanks to Dr. Jarhoom for posting this and many other items of Yemen's rich cultural heritage.


A Disappeared Gate of Sanaa
This image, posted on the Facebook site of Hussain al-Amree, is taken from Der Jemen, das verbotene Land. Econ Verlag, 1959. It was taken...


Rock over rock
Impressive rock formation. It is best to ignore the automatic Google Translate... From the Facebook site of Fahad al-Anbari.


Facebook Site on Qat
Check out the following Facebook site on qat, with plenty of humor... Canned Chinese qat; what will they think of next?


Niehbuhr's Yemeni Textiles
The traveler Carsten Niehbuhr provides a late 18th century view of Yemen. This article discusses the textiles shown in his images and...


Brinkley Messick on Yemeni Shari'a
AIYS member Brinkley Messick will be giving an online talk on February 1. Details at https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/islamicbooks/religio...


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.


Big Ben in Aden
One of the many images of Yemen on Facebook. Check out this site for more.


Kawkaban Entrance
From the Facebook Site of Fahad al-Anbārī.


New book on Ṣan‘ā' hammams
Michel Tuchscherer, photographies de Nabil Boutros Éditions Geuthner, 310 p. Ouvrage publié avec le soutien de l'Iremam Malgré la guerre...


Yemen Update Redux: New Additions
A number of useful and important articles exist in past issues of Yemen Update that are not online. In Yemen Update Redux two articles...


Childhood in Yemen
There is an exhibition in French on research and images regarding childhood in Yemen. Click here to go to it. Although it is in French,...


Descending the Mahra "Well of Hell"
The famous and mysterious massive hold in the ground in Mahra has been explored by a team from Oman. For details and pictures check out...


Old Sanaa Framed
From the Facebook page of Khalid al-Ansi.
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