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Shibam in the Hadramawt
From the Facebook Site of Fahad al-Anbari


History of Hasan Pasha
The Ottoman governor of Yemen known as Hasan Pasha (d. 1607 CE) wrote a history of Yemen, which is available online in Latin translation...


The Alamree Photo Archive
The photo archive of Hussain Alamree is a national treasure for all Yemenis. Check out this article on Alamree and his archive of...


A Sailor and His Camel Ride
[Illustration: Arabian Camel from George Shaw, Zoology (1801)] [Joseph Osgood was a Black American sailor who visited the Yemeni port of...


Scene in Shahara
From the Facebook page "historyofyemen".


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...


Customs around Aden
This book can be downloaded here.


Sanaa Airport, 1973
From the Facebook site Old and Rare Photos of Yemen.


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.


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...


New Book in Yemen Anthropology
To order in the U.S., click here.


Fields on Jabal Sabr
مسجد اهل الكهف وقرية المعقاب From the Facebook site of Fahad al-Anbari.


Hadramawt from above
From the Facebook Page of Hussain Alamree.


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...


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...


Yemen in 1955
From the Website of "Old Photos of Yemen"


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...


A Marvel of Yemen
Posted on the Facebook Group Cultural Heritage of Yemen.


Folk Literature of Socotra
Check out this site of the folk literature of Socotra in English and Arabic.


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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