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by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,8 October 2004
Almost four years after suicide bombers blew up the USS Cole in Aden harbour killing 17 American sailors, a Yemeni court has sentenced two men to death and jailed four others for their role in the attack.
Only one of…
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,11 January, 2002
BASKING in American approval, the Yemeni government has begun to assert itself in areas where it once feared to tread. Whatever authoritarian aspirations President Ali Abdullah Saleh may have cherished in the past…
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International, 17 Feb 1995
THREE WEEKS of "brotherly" talks in Riyadh, plus some quiet international diplomacy, have taken the immediate heat out of the Saudi-Yemeni border dispute. After the frontier skirmishes of December and January, and…
by Audrey Gillan and Brian Whitaker
Originally published in The Guardian, 1 January, 1999
THE hostages who survived a gun battle in the Yemeni desert were last night on their way home to Britain as the Government demanded an explanation for the disastrous rescue operation that left four kidnapped…
2002
Nadia's choice
April 01 2002
Polls apart
March 04 2002
In the name of Allah the Prince gets back on his horse
March 04 2002
AK-47 training held at London mosque
Observer, February 17 2002
Dead Yemeni related to US hijacker
February 15 2002
Stunt aims to turn jury against Taliban suspect…
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International, 18 February 2005
Press freedom in Yemen has taken a serious turn for the worse following the jailing of newspaper editor Abd al-Karim al-Khaiwani and the criminal convictions of at least seven other journalists. News coverage and…
People will keep different memories of A.F.L. Beeston, who died on 29th September 1995, but in whatever guise he is remembered by any individual, whether as a teacher, a scholar, friend or "boon companion", Freddie himself was a delightful and supremely integrated person.
He was born at Barnes in…
Progressive social policies are increasingly under attack in international forums. Muslim countries are in the forefront of this campaign but they are also aided by rightwing elements in the United States and by countries where social conservatism has become part of nationalist discourse.
The…
Sayyid Ahmad bin Muhammad Zabara, Mufti of the Yemen Republic, who died in Sana’a on 23 July 2000 at the age of 92, was a member of one of the most prominentsayyidfamilies in Yemen. His line extended back to al-Hadi Yahya bin al-Husain bin al-Qasim (a scion of Imam al-Hasan, grandson of the Prophet…
Derek Harvey, who died on 31 March 2006 at the age of 78, spent twenty-five years of his professional life providing health care in Zambia, Oman, Brunei and Yemen where his medical expertise was perfectly matched to his love of bird watching in far flung lands. Born to a pastor father, once a…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
