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Coffee Festival in Sanaa
From the Facebook Page اخبار الزراعة في اليمن


From Damascus to Sanaa in 1936
In 1936 a Syrian agricultural engineer named Aḥmad Waṣfī Zakariyā visited Yemen at the invitation of Imam Yaḥyā. He stayed in Yemen for...


Waqf in Zaydi Yemen
The masterful study of the institution of waqf in Zaydi Yemen by Eirik Hovden is available to download in open access from Brill. Based...


Sanaa in Ottoman Photograph
From the Facebook Page of Mohammed Jarhoom


Old Photographs of Yemen
Check this out for a treasury of old photographs of Yemen. From the Facebook site of Elisabeth Wojnarski.


View behind Bab al-Yaman
From the Facebook Site Old and Rare Photos of Yemen.


Yemen in Photos
Although Yemen is not that "happy" these days, this is a collection of photographs taken by IRc workers and published by the IRC. There...


Marjorie Ransom on Silver Jewelry
For an interview with Marjorie, click here.


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...


Traditional Yemeni Well
Scene from Dhamar. From the Facebook Site Old and Rare Photos of Yemen.


Al-Bakrī on Yemen
A page on Yemen from a manuscript of the 11th century CE geographer al-Bakrī. For a copy of the manuscript, click here. This important...


Dār al-Ḥajar in Ṣan‘a'
From the Facebook site of Fahad al-Anbari.


Sanaa in 1962
Old city of Sanaa from the Bakiriya Mosque, from a photograph taken in 1962; courtesy of Dr. Muhammad Gerhoum


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...


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...


Swinging in Yemen...
From the Facebook Page of Mohammed Jarhoom.


Fields around Sanaa
An old photograph of the old city of Sanaa. I suspect it is from the late Ottoman era.


Jean Lambert on Yemeni Music
Jean Lambert talks about Yemeni music in April, 2016 (in French, but the music is Yemeni...)


Al-Mutawakkil Mosque in Sanaa
From the Facebook Site Old and Rare Photos of Yemen


Shāfi‘ī School in Yemen
كتاب : المذهب الشافعي في اليمن من القرن الرابع إلى السابع الهجري. تأليف : جمال عبد الحبيب الكلدي اليافعي. اهتمت الدراسة التي بين أيدينا...
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