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Yemeni Pilgrim in 1884
From the Facebook page صور قديمة ونادرة لليمن


Sorghum (dhura) in Yafi‘
October in the Yemeni mountains is the local season known as ṣurāb , an ancient Yemeni term for the autumn harvest of sorghum ( dhura )....


1969 Film on Yemen
To watch this film on Youtube, click here. It is spoken in French, but there are many images of life at the time, especially the...


Photographing Yemen
The French photographers Pascal and Maria Maréchaux have a Facebook site entitled Yemen Genesis in which they post photographs they have...


Hijra Village near Manakha
From the Facebook Page of Fahad al-Anbari.


Traveling Light in Yemen
[Note: the following list of items for light camping in Arabia is provided by G. Wyman Bury for the early part of the 20th century.] CAMP...


Old Photo of Dhamar
From the Facebook Page of Mohammed Jarhoom.


Yemen's Agricultural Terraces
There is an environmental documentary film about Yemeni agriculture, produced by Tony Milroy of Arid Lands and Sustainable Communities...


Rida‘ in 1882
From the Facebook Page of Murād Rabī‘


Navigating the Indian Ocean Workshop
This workshop is taking place online via Zoom, on the afternoons of Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 June 2024. Click here to see the poster...


The Coastal Town of al-Shihr
From the Facebook Page of Fahad al-Anbari


Source for Arabic Books on Yemen
This is an important Facebook Page for downloading Arabic books on Yemen. Below is an example.


Wadi Dhabab Suq
From the Facebook Page of Fahad al-Anbari.


Another Yemen Archive
The mega-site archive.org has a number of Yemeni books in pdf that would be hard to find through their search function. For a source of...


Tim MacIntosh-Smith in Arabic
One of the most gifted writers on Yemen is the British savant Tim MacIntosh- Smith, who lived in Yemen for decades. His most recent book,...


From Damascus to Sanaa in 1936
In 1936 a Syrian agricultural engineer named Aḥmad Waṣfī Zakariyā visited Yemen at the invitation of Imam Yaḥyā. He stayed in Yemen for...


More Yemen photos by Pascal and Maria Maréchaux
Some incredible photographs taken in Yemen by Pascal and Maria Maréchaux on their Facebook page Yemen Genesis.


Yemen Photos by Pascal and Maria Maréchaux
The French photographers Pascal and Maria Maréchaux have taken an extensive range of pictures in Yemen and produced several books. There...


Al-Muqaddasi on Yemen
One of the most important 10th century Arab travelers to Yemen was Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad (d. 380/990). His most important text,...


Glaser's Trips in Arabic
The Austrian traveler Eduard Glaser visited Yemen during the second Ottoman period and wrote several articles in German. There is an AIYS...
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