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Keeping the Geology Museum Open
The journal Nature has an article about the work of Fahd Albarraq and his colleagues to keep the Yemen Geological Museum open despite the...


The Teak Column of al-Qalis
AIYS member Dr. Lily Filson reroutes religious loot through the 6th and 8th centuries, via the Teak Column of al-Qalis, produced in...


New book on Ṣan‘ā' hammams
Michel Tuchscherer, photographies de Nabil Boutros Éditions Geuthner, 310 p. Ouvrage publié avec le soutien de l'Iremam Malgré la guerre...


Yemeni Research in Halle
The library of the Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle-Wittenberg has uploaded over 300 books in German, with a few in English, that can...


New Thesis on Zaydi Governance
Congratulations to Ekaterina (Kate) Puhkovaia for a successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis entitled "BETWEEN SULTANS AND IMAMS: THE...


Old Sanaa Framed
From the Facebook page of Khalid al-Ansi.
New Arabic article on Yemen Update
A new article in Arabic on the impact of the war on Yemeni university students has been uploaded to Yemen Update Online. Click here to be...


Yemenite Jewish Silverwork
Read the article online here: https://www.hagalil.com/2016/06/yemenite-jewellery/


Yemeni Books Online
There are several online sources with pdfs of Arabic books on Yemen. One of these is Al-Yaman al-Maymūn with a variety of searchable...


Lecture on Ottoman Yemen
For details on this talk and how to join, go here: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/isa/detail/event-detail/template-event-isa-international-gue...


2021 Yemeni Short Film Festival
There is currently a free showing online of recent short Yemen films. The films are in Arabic with English (not always accurate)...


World Heritage Day, April 18
Sanaa On World Heritage Day we celebrate the incredibly rich heritage, tangible and intangible, of Yemen through the ages and through the...


Yemeni Fashion in 1873
It is rare to find photographs of Yemenis in the 19th century, especially ordinary people and not members of the elite. A series of...


Sanaa Meat Prices from about 1990
Prices for meat in the Sanaa sūq were posted on a tablet from just before the unification in Yemen in 1990. The cost of a kilo of beef...
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