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by Nageeb Hassan, Abdullah Gunaid and Iain Murray-Lyon
Nageeb Hassan is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sana ‘a, and obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester . Professor Abdullah Gunaid, also from the Faculty of Medicine, University of…
All but one of the photographs illustrating this article were taken by Lieut-Colonel M. C. Lake (or with his camera) in November 1925, and are published here by kind permission of The National Archives, Kew.
Cannon requested by Sultan Aidrous bin Muhsin being
transported on…
by JULIAN LUSH
These are just some observations by an amateur bee-keeper travelling with the Society’s three week tour of Yemen in October 2000; they are by no means a comprehensive account of what is becoming an important industry and source of wealth in the rural economy.
One thing manifest over…
by The Editor
Ali Muhammad Luqman in Aden c. 1941.
In June 1940 Italy entered the War on the side of Germany and started bombing Aden from Italian bases in the Horn of Africa. In Western Europe allied forces were in retreat, and the mood in Aden was sombre. Freya Stark (FS), the British…
by BINI MALCOLM
The author first visited Yemen as a photojournalist in late October 1962. She covered the arrival in Taiz and Mocha of Abdullah Sallal as President of Republican Yemen after the September Revolution. In Sana ‘a, in early November, she interviewed President Sallal, Vice-…
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Model of mtepe, Lamu, East Africa [Science Museum]
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The jalbut, one of the most popular types of dhow in the Gulf
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Sanbuq
Portuguese Caravel [left]
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The Hariri Ship, the first known picture of an Arab sailing…
by Salem Yousr Muftah
The author was born on the island of Soqotra in 1979. After graduating in medicine from the University of Hadhramaut he joined the island's nascent health service. In 2010 he was awarded a scholarship funded through the British-Yemeni Society to study for a Master's Degree in…
Bader Ben Hirsi, a British Yemeni resident in London, directed and produced the 75-minute documentary on Yemen, ‘The English Sheikh and The Yemeni Gentleman’ which was shown to members of the Society on 16 March, 2000.
Bader Ben Hirsi, now 32, was born and brought up in Britain. He is the youngest…
by ABDULLAH AL-UDHARI
Waddah al-Yaman, whose real name was Abdul Rahman b. Isma’il al-Khawlani, was born in Yemen in the second half of the seventh century. His father died when he was a little boy and, after the prescribed period of mourning, his mother remarried. Waddah grew up in his stepfather’…
by MUHAMMAD AL-MASYABI
The author is a Committee member of the Society. Until recently he was Director of the Mu’adh Welfare Trust in Birmingham, a charity catering for the educational and social needs of the local Yemeni community.
I was shocked by the events which occurred in Yemen last December…
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
