A half century ago plus a few days, Professor Jon Mandaville, an Ottomanist who served as the first resident director of AIYS in Ṣan‘ā',...

This historic photograph is of a reconnaissance balloon used by the British against the Ottomans (1915-1918). From the Facebook Site Old...

One of the most important 10th century Arab travelers to Yemen was Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad (d. 380/990). His most important text,...