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Yemen Khanjar over time
From the Facebook Page of Mohammed Jarhoom. https://www.facebook.com/mjarhoom


British Fighting in Radfan, 1964
There is a Youtube video of a BBC documentary on the fighting of British soldiers in the area of Radfan in the Aden Protectorate in...


Film on the Young YAR
There is a 13 minute video posted on Youtube from British Movietone and taken during the early days of the revolution that created the...


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...


Dostal Volume
This publication of essays is well worth reading and it can be downloaded as a pdf here: https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/.../9783700176039_gesa...


Zabid tower
Photograph of a tower on the wall of the historic fortress in Zabīd. From the Facebook Page of Fahad al-Anbari


Leiden Online Exhibition on Yemen
To access this exhibition, click here. One of the examples in the Leiden collection. This is a commentary on the teachings of Imam...


Manuscripts of al-Hamdānī
Click here to download the manuscripts. From the Facebook site of Mohammed Atboush


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...


Yemeni Books on Yafi and Poetry
From the Facebook site of د.علي صالح الخلاقي Download links of the books of Dr. Ali Saleh Alkhalaki. An integrated library with dozens...


Geography of Yemen and its Tribes
There is an online geographical text on the Arabian Peninsula, published by the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives...


Berlin manuscript on Yemeni history
This manuscript is in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and is available for download here: It discusses the pre-Islamic history of Yemen.


Biography of Shaykh Mujahid Haydar
Congratulations to Marieke Brandt, who has just published a fascinating biography of Shaykh Mujahid Haydar of the Sufyan tribe. Her work...


Yemen in the 1930s
To see the photographs, click here.


Rules of Barat Online
The classic study of tribal law in the Barat region of Dhū Muḥammad by Paul Dresch is available online. This is written in English


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...


Source for Books on Zaydi Islam
The website alzaidiya has a major collection of books on the Zaydis, Yemen in general, tribes and a variety of texts on Islam and the...


Tribal Ties and Cooking Fires
Congratulations to Mohammed A. Atbuosh for his recent article published in Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. https://onlinelibrary.wiley...


Webinar on Tribes and the Future of Yemen
Click here to register. Note that the time announced is for Sanaa. This event will be conducted in Arabic.


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=...
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