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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,...


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...


Aden from above
Posted to the Facebook site of "Friends of Yemen."


New Book on Hadrami Diaspora
A new book on the Hadrami diaspora has just been published by Brill. Details are here.


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...


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...


Socotra Scenes
A Facebook site with photographs of Socotra.


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...


New article on Hadrami Sufi
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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...


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...


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...


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=...


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...


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


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...


Al-Jazeera Film on Rural Yemen
There is a nice film on rural life in Yemen by al-Jazeera, now available on Youtube.


Ibb Now and Then
Google Translate messed up the timing of the bottom photo: it is from 2021.


Nancy Um on Yemeni and Spanish Coins
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