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Online tourist guide to Yemen
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A selection of guides and books about travel in Yemen.
Motoring with Mohammed
by Eric Hansen
A classic of its genre, told with humour and a keen sense of the absurd
Available from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk
Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land
by Tim Mackintosh-…
Footnotes
Chapter 2
For demographic figures see David Munro, The Oxford Dictionary of the World: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 657.
On neopatrimonialism, see S. N. Eisenstadt, Traditional Patrimonialism and Modern Neopatrimonialism, Sage Research Papers in the Social Sciences,…
by Gerd Nonneman
Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics, University of Lancaster
This paper was delivered at a conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, on November 26-26, 1995.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Basic characteristics of the Yemeni economy…
by Mohammed al-Maitami
Professor of Economics, Sana'a University
Visiting Professor at Georgetown University
The American-British invasion of Iraq and the quick collapse of the Iraqi regime have revealed the failure of the Arab state to defend and protect its people and even defend its existence…
by Mohammed al-Maitami
Associate Professor of Economics, Sana'a University
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
A paper presented to " Yemen in Focus" – a conference organized by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies – University of Georgetown – Washington, on October 1, 1998.…
by Mohammed al-Maitami
Associate Professor of Economics, Sana'a University
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
IT IS probably necessary to begin by restating the most basic principle of macroeconomics which says that the political, social and military fate of any nation depends…
Basic information
Yemen overview
(World Bank)
Economic development data profile
(World Bank)
World Bank reports on Yemen
List of reports, with links to full text
Index of documents on Yemen
in the World Bank database
Yemen in brief
General review of the economic situation, September 2001(World…
Northern provinces
Ta'izz
Ibb
Sana'a (prov)
Hodeida
Hajja
Dhamar
Sana'a (city)
Al-Bayda'
Sa'ada
Mahwit
Ma'rib
Jawf
Total (north)
Southern provinces
Hadramaut
Lahij
Aden
Abyan
Shabwa
Al-Mahra
Total (south)
Total (all provinces)
Population
2,…
by BRIAN WHITAKER
August, 1998
REVERBERATIONS of the bin Laden affair have now reached Yemen. On August 23 the government denied a report that it had harboured the militant millionaire after he was driven out Sudan in 1996. The denial is entirely plausible, since bin Laden is wanted for arrest…
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
