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By Stephen Akester
This article is based on an illustrated lecture given to the Society, at The Middle East Association, on 7 November 2006. The author is Director of MacAlister Elliott & Partners who advise on fisheries conservation and development, and have been working in Yemen since 1985.…
by GEORGINA HARDING
Georgina Harding and her husband, John, travelled to Soqotra with Neil Orr in January 2004. This was their first visit to the island memorialised by Kipling in his ‘Just so Stories’. Here she records a few personal impressions.
Long before the end of our two week visit, I had…
‘SANDS OF TIME’: Exhibition of photographs of Bayhan, 1948–50, at the National Museum, Sana’a
From left to right: Sharif Haidar bin Saleh Al-Habili
with Muhammad bin Awadh al-Aulaqi and
Shaikh Saleh Farid al-Aulaqi outside the new wing
of the National Museum, Sana’a.
In true…
See article by James Taylor
FIGURE 1
Zanuq
Boum
Sanbuq
Baghlah
FIGURE 2
The batil, much in favour as a warship during the 19th century
FIGURE 3
A dug-out or huri, Bahrain, photographed by the author in the 1950s
FIGURE 4
Silver…
by JOHN SHIPMAN
Economic necessity obliged many Yemenis at the turn of the last century to make their living below deck in the steamships of foreign merchant navies. Few Europeans stationed East of Suez and familiar with the comforts of travelling on the passenger deck of P & 0, would have…
by BISHOP JOHN BROWN
Until his retirement the author was Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf. He is now Honorary Assistant Bishop of Lincoln. For many years he has heen actively involved in inter-faith dialogue. The following article is an abridged version of his talk to the Society on 12 November 1998.…
by James Spencer
It has been popular – indeed is now almost conventional – to describe prerevolutionary Yemen as having been isolated and backward; it has been characterised as ‘mediæval’ or as ‘the Tibet of the Middle East’ in many Western academic articles and journalistic reports. Yet the…
By Anne Walker
The author is a self-taught artist whose interest in painting was inspired by her time in Aden and the opportunities which came her way to travel up-country.
Sayyid Ali Muhammad al-Hamed,
Dhala’.
Yahya Hussain ‘Atif al-Yafa’i,
Lahej.
I lived in Aden from 1955…
by DEREK MATTHEWS
This article was originally published in the journal of the British Yemeni Society, November 1996
It has become fashionable to take an interest in the architecture of the Yemen, the "Arabia Felix" so called by Roman geographers. On an important trade route of antiquity, inevitably…
by Anderson Bakewell with Francine Stone
Selma al-Radi (23 July 1939 – 7 October 2010)
'All is well here, life carries on as normal with chaos reigning supreme... the laying down of the water system, holes everywhere, streets torn up, traffic chaos and Yemenis and sundries falling into the trenches…
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
