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by Denyse Woods
Penguin, Ireland, 2005. Pb. ISBN 1-844-88042-7.
Novels are not usually reviewed in these pages, but I was asked to look at this one because it was set primarily in Yemen. I was a little wary, as I do not normally read romantic fiction. However, I felt drawn into the book from the…
by Gerhard Lichtenthäler, Ashgate Publishing, 2003. Pp. 274. Plates. Maps. Diagrams. Charts. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £55. ISBN 0-7546-09081.
During the past two decades amazing changes have taken place on the far northern plateau of Yemen. Until the 1980s the region was mostly arid grazing land for…
by Frank Edwards, Helion & Co., Solihull, 2004. Pp. ix + 180. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. Glossary. Append. Hb. £29.95. ISBN 1-874622-96-5.
In the foreword to his book Frank Edwards modestly denies any pretensions to scholarship; his account, he insists, is ‘a story told in a personal way and…
by Linda Boxberger
State University of New York Press, 2002. Pp. xix + 292. Illus. Append. Notes. Maps. Bibliog. Index. Pb. £17. ISBN 0-7914-5218-2.
This book is, without doubt, a unique contribution to Hadhrami studies. Painstakingly researched, it is marked by a discernible sincerity in approach…
Warriors of Arabia: Memoirs of a Medical Officer in Aden and Beyond by Franco Grima, privately published, Malta, 2009. Pp. 234. Illus. Maps. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. Pb. €30. ISBN 978-99932-0-684-2. (Obtainable from author: email address:francogrima@onvol.net)
This enthralling memoir covers the…
Ein Jude im Dienst des Imams: Der erfolgreiche Geschäftsmann Israel Subayri by Yosef Tobi, Vol. VII of Mare Erythraeum, Staatliches Museum fur Völkerkunde, München, J. H. Röll Verlag, Dettelbach, 2008. Pp. 168. 14 b/w illus. Hb. €89. 90. ISBN 978-3-89754-265-5.
There have been many studies on…
by Glencairn Balfour Paul
I. B. Tauris, 2006. Pp.xix + 329. Illus. Maps. Index. Hb. £20. ISBN 1-84511-151-6.
These are not your average diplomatic memoirs – but then Glen Balfour Paul is not your average diplomat. For a start he spent much of his career, (and about a quarter of this book) in the…
by Catherine Cheung and Lyndon DeVantier; Science Editor: Kay Van Damme. Forewords byDr Abdelkareem Al Eryani and Dr Edoardo Zandri.
Published for the Socotra Conservation Fund by Odyssey Books & Guides, Hong Kong, 2006. Pp. 404. Illus. Index. Glossary. Annex. Hb. £39. 50. ISBN-13: 978-962-217-…
by Gabriele vom Bruck
Palgrave Macmillan (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion), 2005. Foreword by Fred Halliday. Pp. xix 348. Illus. Appendices. Notes. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. Hb. £42. Pb. £14. 99. ISBN 1-4039-6665-6.
Any traveller in the Islamic world from Morocco to Indonesia will inevitably…
by Michael Crouch, with a foreword by General Sir Charles Guthrie
Revised second edition. Rawlhouse Publishing Ltd, Western Australia, 2000. Pp. 281. Illus. Appendix. Index. Pb. ISBN 0 95874064 X.
This is a revised and updated edition of his book first published by the Radcliffe Press in 1993 and…
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
