Yemen in 1955
From the Website of "Old Photos of Yemen"
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Mocha Trade in the early 19th century
As the British extended their trade through the Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there were a number of...
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A Marvel of Yemen
Posted on the Facebook Group Cultural Heritage of Yemen.
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Folk Literature of Socotra
Check out this site of the folk literature of Socotra in English and Arabic.
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A Yemeni Pilgrimage to Mecca in 1825
In 1241/1825 Ismā‘īl Jaghmān made the pilgrimage from Ṣan‘ā', documenting every step of the way and what he saw in Mecca. The title of a...
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Nancy Um on the Mocha Coffee Trade
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Two Arabic Books on Yemen Online
The libraries of the American University of Beirut has a digital collection of books online. Two that may be of interest regarding Yemen,...
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Yemeni Author wins Major Prize
AIYS congratulates Khadija for winning this major prize for her novel. Read about it here. The book can be ordered here. The House of...
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Aden from above
Posted to the Facebook site of "Friends of Yemen."
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New Book on Hadrami Diaspora
A new book on the Hadrami diaspora has just been published by Brill. Details are here.
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Jāzim on Ibn al-Mujāwir
Congratulations to the Yemeni historian Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥim Jāzim for publication of a new edition of the travelogue of the 13th...
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Online Yemen Sources at the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has placed a number of its holdings regarding Yemen online. The types of materials now online from their...
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Socotra Scenes
A Facebook site with photographs of Socotra.
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Eduard Glaser in Arḥab
In 1993 AIYS published an English translation of an article by the Austrian explorer Eduard Glaser in 1884. This is an important personal...
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New article on Hadrami Sufi
Click here to read the article.
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Website of Hussain Alamree
One of the best sources on the history and culture of southern Yemen, especially Aden and Yafi‘ is that of Hussain al-Amree. A person can...
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Yemen Documents Online
There are many online resources archiving documents and powerpoints. One of these is called Dokumen. If you type in "Yemen" to the...
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The Work of Nicholas Rhodokanakis
Mohamed Maraqten and Gertraud Sturm have recently published a volume devoted to the work of Nicholas Rhodokanakis, who worked on the...
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PDFs on Yemen at archive.com
There is a treasure trove of pdf documents about Yemen online at https://archive.org/search.php?query=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%86&sin=...
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Kenneth Cline on Yemen
Kenneth Cline has written a book about his experiences in Yemen. For the next four days it is available free as an e-book on Amazon. Here...
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