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Late 19th Century Yemeni Gabili from Ibb
Eduard Glaser visited Yemen four times between October, 1882 and Spring, 1894. His writing on the late Ottoman era in Yemen, written in...
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The Beauty of al-Mahwit
When Yemen receives rain and the wadis flood, it is a thing of beauty. From the Facebook site Cultural Heritage Yemen.
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Zigzagging Yemen in 1911
In 1911 a book was published by an American missionary who traveled across Arabia and had visited Yemen as early as 1890 when the British...
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Fields on Jabal Sabr
مسجد اهل الكهف وقرية المعقاب From the Facebook site of Fahad al-Anbari.
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Philby in the Ḥaḍramawt
The British traveler H. St. J. Philby is best known for his writings on Saudi Arabia, but he also visited the Hadramawt in the late...
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Shooting Qat in Doha
This is a store in Doha. I suspect there is no qat in Qatar (apart from the first three letters), but there are plenty of photogenic...
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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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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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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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