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George Popov, who died on 22 December 1998, was one of the least known but most experienced travellers in the Arabian Peninsula. He was born of Russian parents in Mashhad, Iran, where his father worked for the Imperial Bank. After his father’s death in the early years of World War II, his education…
by DAVID SMILEY
During the civil war in Yemen in the 1960s, Colonel Smiley, LVO MC OBE, served as military adviser to Imam Al-Badr and senior members of the Yemeni royal family. Before retiring from the British Army in 1961 he spent three years in Oman as Commander of the Sultan’s Armed Forces. He…
Abdelmalik Eagle, who died suddenly in May last year at his home in Durham, was an active member of the Society and a much valued contributor to its Journal.
After leaving school, Abdelmalik did his national service in the army, which introduced him to Aden and Southern Arabia. In 1964, after…
From Tihamah to Aden with Ibn Battutah,
by Tim Mackinstosh-Smith
Tim Mackintosh-Smith is author of ‘ Yemen : Travels in Dictionary Land ’ (1997), and of two books about Ibn Battutah: ‘Travels with a Tangerine’ (2001), and ‘Hall of a Thousand Columns’ (2005); he is now writing a third volume.…
It is particularly sad that the first issue of this new British-Yemeni periodical should carry notice of the death of an outstanding Arabist and traveller, an intellectual giant who did more than any other to bring together the two countries, Britain and the Yemen.
Bob Serjeant was born in…
by Salma Samar al-Damluji
Dr Damluji returned to Yemen in February, after an absence of five years, to attend an international conference on mud-brick architecture convened in Seiyun by the University of Hadhramaut. She later travelled to Aden and Yafa’. Her publications on Yemen include: ‘A Yemen…
Their current situation and uncertain future
By Miranda Morris
Dr Miranda Morris is a distinguished linguist and ethnographer who has done extensive fieldwork in Oman and Yemen. She gave the following talk to a joint meeting of the Anglo-Omani and British- Yemeni Societies on 19 April 2007.
A group…
Geoffrey Clayton, who died in March 2009 after a brave battle against cancer, spent almost forty years in international banking, mainly in the Middle East but also in the Far East and Europe.
His career in the Middle East started in the late 1950s with the Eastern Bank in Bahrain. This was followed…
Sayf al-Islam al-Hassan was the third son of Imam Yahya and took a prominent part in Yemeni politics for four decades.
He was born in the village of al-Qafla in Hashid territory northwest of Sana’a in 1908. His mother was Sharifa Huriya, the daughter of Sayf al-Islam Muhammad al-Mutawakkil. He…
by Laila Noman
State education for Yemeni girls during the British occupation of South Yemen was almost non-existent outside the capital, Aden. In Aden itself, primary and intermediate schools for boys and girls existed in each small township of Steamer Point, Crater, Shaikh Othman, etc. The only…
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
