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Despite official warnings, Tim Morris took his family to Yemen for a holiday. They not only survived but came back impressed by Yemeni hospitality.
Tim Morris is an anthropologist, development consultant and author of The Despairing Developer: Diary of an Aid Worker in the Middle East.
This…
Year
Arrivals
Revenue ($)
1988
60,000
21,000,000
1989
65,000
26,000,000
1990
52,000
20,000,000
1991
44,000
21,000,000
1992
72,000
47,000,000
1993
70,000
45,000,000
1994
40,000
19,000,000
1995
61,000
33,000,000
1996
74,000
42,000,000
1997
84,000
69,000,000
1998
n/a…
Basics
US State Department
Consular information and travel advice
British Foreign Office
Travel advice
Local time
Local weather
Currency converter
Yemeni riyal (QAR)
Lonely Planet
Online tourist guide to Yemen
Travel hints
(Yemen Explorer Tours)
Maps of Yemen
Public holidays
(arab.net)
Electricity…
A selection of guides and books about travel in Yemen.
Motoring with Mohammed
by Eric Hansen
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Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land
by Tim Mackintosh-…
Footnotes
Chapter 2
For demographic figures see David Munro, The Oxford Dictionary of the World: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 657.
On neopatrimonialism, see S. N. Eisenstadt, Traditional Patrimonialism and Modern Neopatrimonialism, Sage Research Papers in the Social Sciences,…
by Gerd Nonneman
Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics, University of Lancaster
This paper was delivered at a conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, on November 26-26, 1995.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Basic characteristics of the Yemeni economy…
by Mohammed al-Maitami
Professor of Economics, Sana'a University
Visiting Professor at Georgetown University
The American-British invasion of Iraq and the quick collapse of the Iraqi regime have revealed the failure of the Arab state to defend and protect its people and even defend its existence…
by Mohammed al-Maitami
Associate Professor of Economics, Sana'a University
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
A paper presented to " Yemen in Focus" – a conference organized by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies – University of Georgetown – Washington, on October 1, 1998.…
by Mohammed al-Maitami
Associate Professor of Economics, Sana'a University
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
IT IS probably necessary to begin by restating the most basic principle of macroeconomics which says that the political, social and military fate of any nation depends…
Basic information
Yemen overview
(World Bank)
Economic development data profile
(World Bank)
World Bank reports on Yemen
List of reports, with links to full text
Index of documents on Yemen
in the World Bank database
Yemen in brief
General review of the economic situation, September 2001(World…
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
