In 1241/1825 Ismā‘īl Jaghmān made the pilgrimage from Ṣan‘ā', documenting every step of the way and what he saw in Mecca. The title of a...

In 1850 an Australian press published a geography book with a description of Yemen at the time. Here are some of the excerpts...

The libraries of the American University of Beirut has a digital collection of books online. Two that may be of interest regarding Yemen,...

AIYS congratulates Khadija for winning this major prize for her novel. Read about it here. The book can be ordered here. The House of...

From the Facebook Page of Mohammed Maraqten.

د/ عمر صالح سامل الفانوص بن رشيد أستاذ الحضارة والتاريخ الاسلامي الملساعد كلية اآلداب جامعة عدن ملكيات األاراضي الزراعية في العهد...

A new book on the Hadrami diaspora has just been published by Brill. Details are here.

Congratulations to the Yemeni historian Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥim Jāzim for publication of a new edition of the travelogue of the 13th...

The Library of Congress has placed a number of its holdings regarding Yemen online. The types of materials now online from their...

To download a pdf of the article, go to https://www.aiys.org/update2020-2021

The Abdulaziz al-Maqaleh Book Award for Yemeni Heritage is available for any Yemeni scholar living in Yemen. The deadline for submitting...

Congratulations to Walid Al-Murisi, who received an AIYS Yemeni fellowship in 2020, on publication of his article in Plos One.

Congratulations to Stacey Philbrick Yadav, AIYS treasurer, for publication of her new book with Hurst Publishers. Below is a brief...

Congratulations to AIYS member Lily Filson for publication of her new book. Details here:

AIYS Board Member Dan Mahoney has just published an article called "Medieval Reports of the Preservation and Looting of Pre-Islamic...

To download Nayl al-waṭar of Zabāra, go here: https://wadod.net/bookshelf/book/3149 To download his أئمة اليمن بالقرن الرابع عشر للهجرة...

In December, 1951, an Egyptian delegation led by Fu'ād Sayyid ‘Imāra, the head of Arabic manuscripts in the Egyptian National library,...

The website https://wadod.net/ has a number of pdfs of books on Yemen. Click اليمن in the search box.

Fahad al-Anbari has posted on Facebook several images of the silver Maria Theresa thaler, first minted in Austria in 1741. In Yemen, as...

Al Jazeera has an article on the impact of the war on honey production in Yemen. There are several photos of hives and honey. Click here...