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Tim Mackintosh-Smith
There is, of course, a longish and well-established tradition of Englishmen writing about Arabia, and much of it is in a similar vein. Take a romanticisation of the ‘noble bedu’, add a sense of the spiritual cleanliness of the desert, throw in a dash of half-acknowledged sexual…
by Trevor H. J. Marchand
Curzon Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 285. Maps. Plates. Figures. Glossary Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £45. ISBN 0-7007-1511-8.
In 1996-97 the author, a young Canadian architect turned anthropologist, spent a year working in Sana’a with a team of traditional builders, the Bayt al-…
Peripheral Visions: publics, power and performance in Yemen by Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. 300. Index. Bibliog. Maps. Illus. Pb. ISBN 13: 978-0-226-87791-41.
Lisa Wedeen is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and her book is based on 18 months of…
An Ethnographic Study of the people of Socotra
Vitaly Naumkin
Ithaca Press
Vitaly Naumkin, of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, conducted research in Socotra between the mid-1970s and 1987, latterly as part of a joint Soviet-Yemeni team, but it is only with this publication (well…
by Abdullah Mansur
(G. Wyman Bury) Garnet Publishing Ltd, 8 Southern Court, South Street, Reading RG1 4QS, 1998. Pp. xxviii + 340. Maps. Appendices. £14.95. Pb. ISBN 1-85964-121-0. First Published by Macmillan and Co, London 1911.
Arabia Infelix or The Turks in Yemen
by G. Wyman Bury
Garnet…
Red Sea Caravan: The Aden Airways Story by Dacre Watson, AirBritain (Historians) Ltd, Staplefield, West Sussex, 2008. Pp. 216. Bibliog. Appendices. Index. Many b/w & colour illus. Hb. £42. ISBN 978-085130-409-0. (Available from author at £40; £5 postage: email:dacrewatson@btinternet.com).
This…
Edited by Kamil Mahdi, Anna Wurth and Helen Lackner
Ithaca Press, 2007. Pp. xxviii464. Tables & Figures. Maps. Acronyms. Bibliog. Notes. Index. Hb. £35. ISBN: 978-086372- 290-5.
This book contains a selection of papers which were originally presented at an international conference on Yemen…
by Mikhail Rodionov and Hanne Schönig, Orient-Institut, Beirut, 2011. Pp. x + 349. Map. Appendices. Indices. Bibliog. Illus. Hb. ISBN 978-3-89913-881-8.
Mikhail Rodionov of St Petersburg needs little introduction, particularly within the context of the long years which he has devoted to the study…
by Douglas Botting
First published in 1958, reprinted in 2006 by Steve Savage, London & Edinburgh. Pp. 287. Maps. Illus. Glossary. Bibliog. Pb. £12. 50. ISBN 1-904246-21-4.
This is the story of the Oxford Expedition to Soqotra in 1956, which the author organised and led. The aim was to make a…
by Ulrike Freitag
Brill, Leiden, 2003. Pp.xv + 589. Maps, tables, figures and photographs. Chronologies. Bibliog. Index. Hb. ISBN 90-04-12850-6.
This voluminously detailed book builds upon an earlier work Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean 1750s–1960s (Brill, 1997) with…
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
