British Fighting in Radfan, 1964
There is a Youtube video of a BBC documentary on the fighting of British soldiers in the area of Radfan in the Aden Protectorate in...
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Film on the Young YAR
There is a 13 minute video posted on Youtube from British Movietone and taken during the early days of the revolution that created the...
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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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Dostal Volume
This publication of essays is well worth reading and it can be downloaded as a pdf here: https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/.../9783700176039_gesa...
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Zabid tower
Photograph of a tower on the wall of the historic fortress in Zabīd. From the Facebook Page of Fahad al-Anbari
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Leiden Online Exhibition on Yemen
To access this exhibition, click here. One of the examples in the Leiden collection. This is a commentary on the teachings of Imam...
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Manuscripts of al-Hamdānī
Click here to download the manuscripts. From the Facebook site of Mohammed Atboush
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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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Yemeni Books on Yafi and Poetry
From the Facebook site of د.علي صالح الخلاقي Download links of the books of Dr. Ali Saleh Alkhalaki. An integrated library with dozens...
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Geography of Yemen and its Tribes
There is an online geographical text on the Arabian Peninsula, published by the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives...
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Berlin manuscript on Yemeni history
This manuscript is in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and is available for download here: It discusses the pre-Islamic history of Yemen.
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Biography of Shaykh Mujahid Haydar
Congratulations to Marieke Brandt, who has just published a fascinating biography of Shaykh Mujahid Haydar of the Sufyan tribe. Her work...
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Rules of Barat Online
The classic study of tribal law in the Barat region of Dhū Muḥammad by Paul Dresch is available online. This is written in English
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Late 19th Century Yemeni Gabili from Ibb
Eduard Glaser visited Yemen four times between October, 1882 and Spring, 1894. His writing on the late Ottoman era in Yemen, written in...
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Source for Books on Zaydi Islam
The website alzaidiya has a major collection of books on the Zaydis, Yemen in general, tribes and a variety of texts on Islam and the...
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Tribal Ties and Cooking Fires
Congratulations to Mohammed A. Atbuosh for his recent article published in Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. https://onlinelibrary.wiley...
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Webinar on Tribes and the Future of Yemen
Click here to register. Note that the time announced is for Sanaa. This event will be conducted in Arabic.
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PDFs on Yemen at archive.com
There is a treasure trove of pdf documents about Yemen online at https://archive.org/search.php?query=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%86&sin=...
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Yemen at MESA 2021
There are several panels and papers on Yemen at the online MESA this year. For the entire program, go to https://mesana.org/mymesa/meetin...
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