Waleed Mahdi's recent book

AIYS board member Waleed Mahdi has recently published Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation (Syracuse University Press). For a conversation about this book click on https://newbooksnetwork.com/waleed-mahdi-arab-americans-in-film-from-hollywood-and-egyptian-stereotypes-to-self-representation-syracuse-up-2020/.

Yemeni Heritage and Dialect Dictionary

Loay Amin has created a wide-ranging website on Yemeni heritage at https://yemenarchive.com. It includes the following resources:

• Yemen Archive:

• Initiatives to document, digitize, and share Yemen cultural and intellectual works on digital platforms: Yemen Digital Library, Adab Al-Yemen (Yemen literature wiki), Yemen online dictionary, Musnad, Yaman and One Thousand and One Songs Documentary (Yemen songs wiki).

• Yemen Historical Library:

• Yemen Historical books and records

• https://yemenhistory.org/

• Qanbus

• Cultural Heritage Wiki.

• https://www.qanbus.com/

Tahirids in German Prints

AIYS member Lily Filson (Tulane University) has received a fellowship from the Renaissance Society of America for a project entitled: “Tahirid Yemen in Sixteenth-Century German Woodblock Prints Accompanying Editions of the Itinerary of Ludovico de Varthema in the British Library."