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by Benedict Wilkinson
Benedict Wilkinson is in the final stages of his PhD at King’s College London, where he is writing about the strategies of violent Islamist groups in Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. He was previously Head of Security and Counter-Terrorism at the Royal United Services Institute…
(Abtesem, anta fi al-Yaman)
by Warda Eissadi
The author won first prize in the Society's essay competition for 2010. This year she is due to commence a degree course in Arabic at SOAS, University of London.
The time had come, and the moment I had been so eagerly waiting for had finally arrived.
I…
Patrick W. R. Petrie (1903–1986)
Over a period of nearly eight decades, the Keith-Falconer Medical Mission in Sheikh Othman, Aden, touched the lives of tens of thousands of people in South West Arabia.
The Mission was founded in 1886 by a thirty year old Scot from Aberdeen, Ion Keith-Falconer, a…
by MERILYN HYWEL-JONES
This article was published in the British Yemeni Society's journal, 1998
Mrs Hywel-Jones lived in Aden in the mid- 1960s and has made several visits to Yemen during the past few years. She is a Council member of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BA CSA),…
by JOHN HEWITT
After military service in India during the Second World War, Major J. S. Hewitt MBE joined the regional headquarters in Cairo of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit. He paid his first visit to Yemen in 1947, and made a further journey there overland from Jedda in 1950. He was later…
by BRIAN WHITAKER
Brian Whitaker is Middle East Editor of the Guardian newspaper. He writes regularly on Yemeni affairs and is a member of the Society.
For the last twelve months Yemen has mostly remained outside the international spotlight – which might be considered a blessing. There have been no…
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Kamaran airport and its famous noticeboard
The Commissioner's Office
Kamaran mosque built during the Turkish occupation
Islanders pumping water by hand
July 2002
by John Shipman
This article was published in the British Yemeni Society's journal, 2000
On the morning of 30 May 1867 a young German businessman, Heinrich Ruete, arrived in Aden by sea from Zanzibar. That same morning in Christ Church, Steamer Point, he married Saline bint Sa’id who had been…
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Gerald Brisch
This article marks the publication this year of TheTravel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent. Volume III: Southern Arabia and Persia: Mabel Bent's diaries of 1893-1898, from the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London. Edited and introduced by Gerald…
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
