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Sorghum (dhura) in Yafi‘
October in the Yemeni mountains is the local season known as ṣurāb , an ancient Yemeni term for the autumn harvest of sorghum ( dhura )....
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1969 Film on Yemen
To watch this film on Youtube, click here. It is spoken in French, but there are many images of life at the time, especially the...
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Photographing Yemen
The French photographers Pascal and Maria Maréchaux have a Facebook site entitled Yemen Genesis in which they post photographs they have...
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Traveling Light in Yemen
[Note: the following list of items for light camping in Arabia is provided by G. Wyman Bury for the early part of the 20th century.] CAMP...
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Yemen's Agricultural Terraces
There is an environmental documentary film about Yemeni agriculture, produced by Tony Milroy of Arid Lands and Sustainable Communities...
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Navigating the Indian Ocean Workshop
This workshop is taking place online via Zoom, on the afternoons of Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 June 2024. Click here to see the poster...
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Source for Arabic Books on Yemen
This is an important Facebook Page for downloading Arabic books on Yemen. Below is an example.
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Another Yemen Archive
The mega-site archive.org has a number of Yemeni books in pdf that would be hard to find through their search function. For a source of...
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Tim MacIntosh-Smith in Arabic
One of the most gifted writers on Yemen is the British savant Tim MacIntosh- Smith, who lived in Yemen for decades. His most recent book,...
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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...
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More Yemen photos by Pascal and Maria Maréchaux
Some incredible photographs taken in Yemen by Pascal and Maria Maréchaux on their Facebook page Yemen Genesis.
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Yemen Photos by Pascal and Maria Maréchaux
The French photographers Pascal and Maria Maréchaux have taken an extensive range of pictures in Yemen and produced several books. There...
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Al-Muqaddasi on Yemen
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,...
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Glaser's Trips in Arabic
The Austrian traveler Eduard Glaser visited Yemen during the second Ottoman period and wrote several articles in German. There is an AIYS...
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