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Michael Crouch
The Radcliffe Press
Michael Crouch’s book is a very personal odyssey that covers most of his working life, but is ninety per cent about the nine years he spent as a political officer in almost every corner of south Yemen.
Starting light-heartedly and entertainingly, the book develops…
Kevin Rushby
Constable, 1998. Pp. xii + 322. Illus. Index. Notes. Hb. £18.99
This is a light-hearted travelogue of a journey on foot and by rail, car, and boat ostensibly searching for the bestqatin Ethiopia and Yemen. I approached this book with trepidation in case it was another disparaging…
by Stephen W. Day, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Middle East Series), 2012. Pp.xxx + 336. Maps. Tables. Chronology. Notes. Index. Pb. $29.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-60659-3.
This long awaited book by Dr Stephen Day, an American scholar and namesake of a former chairman of the BYS, is the fruit of…
by Alessandro de Maigret
Stacey International, London 2002. Pp 384. Maps, Plans, Tables, Charts, B &W illus, Index. Hb. £22. 50. ISBN 1-900988-070.
Travellers in the Yemen who have managed to reach Baraqish will know of Professor de Maigret as the archaeologist who, starting in 1992, excavated…
by Jessop Hulton
Edited by W A Hulton and privately printed, 1844. Reset, with an introduction by Carl Phillips, by The Oleander Press, 2003. Pp. xiv + 202. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Appendices. Hb. £45. ISBN 0-906672-29-5.
The Oleander Press is to be congratulated on rescuing Jessop Hulton from…
by Bernard Haykel
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation), 2003. Pp.xv + 265. Bibliog. Index. Map. Genealogical tables. Illus. Hb. £50. ISBN 0-521-81628-9. Pb. £18.99. ISBN 0-521-52890-9.
The Zaydi branch of Shia Islam was brought to Yemen in the closing years of the…
by Peter Mortimer
Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2005. Pp.239. Illus. Pb. £9.99. ISBN 1-84018-946-0.
Peter Mortimer was commissioned by the Customs House Theatre in South Shields to write a play based around the Yemeni seamen’s riots in that town in 1930. He knew nothing about the riots and…
by Tom Henighan
Penumbra Press, Canada, 2004. Pp.233. Illus. With 44 b/w photographs. Map. Chronology. Bibliog. ISBN 1-894131-64-9.
Tom Henighan served as American vice-consul in Aden from 1957 to 1959. Aged only twenty-two, without, as he mentions, any training in Arabic culture or language, this…
by Charles & Patricia Aithie, with an introduction by Mark Marshall, CMG
Stacey International (128 Kensington Church Street, London W8 4BH), 2001. Pp. 215. 500 colour photographs and 16 maps. Index. Bibliog. Hb. £35. ISBN 1 900988 151.
Lavish colour publications have been produced for all other…
by Paul Dresch
Cambridge University Press,2000. Pp. 285. Illus. Maps. Appendices. Glossary. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. & Pb. ISBN 0 521 79482 X.
Having thoroughly enjoyed Dr Dresch’s previous, primarily anthropological book,Tribes, Government and History in Yemen(1989), I expected good things…
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
