Articles about Yemen

British-Yemeni Society
Articles from the society's journal

Articles about Yemen
by Brian Whitaker

Middle East International
Articles about Yemen by Brian Whitaker

The Guardian
Articles about Yemen


Jawf, forgotten governorate
First of a three-part series by Faez al-Makhrafi, translated by Mahmoud Assamiee. Saba news agency, August 2009. Part two; part three.

Jawf, a destination of stolen cars from Sana'a
Yemen Times, 17 August 2009

He who rides the lion
Authoritarian rule in a plural society: the Republic of Yemen.
by Omar Daair, School of Oriental and African Studies, London (September 2001)

Yemen: state weakness and society alienation
by Ahmed Abdelkareem Saif, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, 1999

Role of the state in a traditional society
by Dr. Abd al-Karim al-Iryani, Prime Minister of Yemen

Yemen, the tribe and the state
by Elham M. Manea

Key issues in the Yemeni economy
by Gerd Nonneman

The politics of survival and the structure of control in the unified Yemen 1990-97
by Ahmed Abdelkareem Saif (MA dissertation, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, 1997)

The establishment of northern hegemony in the process of Yemeni unification
by Michael Welton (MA dissertation, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1997)

The use of qat (Catha edulis) in Yemen
Social and Medical Observations, by Wijdan Luqman and T. S. Danowski

The right "stamp of approval" - how Yemen brightened up its postage stamps. By Allen Kepchar, former US deputy chief of mission in Sanaa (May 1997)

The truth about kidnapping in Yemen
by Shaker Alashwal

A marriage of inconvenience
National unity and democracy in Yemen, by Brian Whitaker (conference paper delivered at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 25 November, 1995)

    Elections and mass politics in Yemen
    Analysis of the 1993 parliamentary elections by Sheila Carapico (Middle East Report, November-December 1993.

    A clash of fundamentalisms
    Wahhabism in Yemen, by Shelagh Weir (Middle East Report, July-September 1997)

    Veillée d'armes en mer Rouge
    by Jean-Louis Peninou, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 1996 (in French)

    Yemen and stability in the Persian Gulf
    by Stephen C. Pelletiere, US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.