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Kawkaban Entrance
From the Facebook Site of Fahad al-Anbārī.


Yemen Update Redux: New Additions
A number of useful and important articles exist in past issues of Yemen Update that are not online. In Yemen Update Redux two articles...


Descending the Mahra "Well of Hell"
The famous and mysterious massive hold in the ground in Mahra has been explored by a team from Oman. For details and pictures check out...


Introducing Yemen Update Redux
In 1991 the AIYS Newsletter was renamed Yemen Update and reached 32 pages. The last few print issues, before the print edition ended in...


Books and Manuscripts on Yemen
A major resource for pdfs of books and manuscripts can be found on the website of https://ketabpedia.com. For the Yemeni books, click...


Library of Dr. C. G. Brouwer
The Dutch scholar C. G. Brouwer. who has made a major contribution to our knowledge of Mocha and the Dutch experience in Yemen, has...


A Tahirid Sultana
AIYS member Lily Filson has written about a Tahirid sultana and the account of the traveler Ludovico de Varthema. Check it out here.


Zooming Ludovico di Varthema in Yemen
Please mark this talk on your calendars. Tomorrow, April 22nd at 12:25 PM (Central time), Dr. Lily Filson presents Ludovico de Varthema's...


Picturing Yemen with Giovanni Canova
The Italian scholar Giovanni Canova recently (2019) published a book of photographs he took in Yemen during the 1980s. Here are just a...


The Ḥaḍramawt in 1931
The Dutch civil servant David van der Meulen and the German explorer Hermann von Wissman visited the Ḥaḍramawt in 1931 and apparently...


Yemen in 1901
The German explorer Hermann Burchardt visited Yemen in 1901 and took photographs, including those of Yemenite Jews. Several of these...


Lady Elwood in Hodeidah in 1825
Between 1825 and 1828 an English lady named Anne Katharine Elwood accompanied her husband, a colonel in the British service, to India. On...
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