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Dear Members,
The British-Yemeni Society is proud to announce the launch of its new website. As was noted by our outgoing chairman Dr Noel Brehony at this year's Annual General Meeting, the Society felt the need to update and modernise its online presence owing to increased public interest in Yemen…
by Lucile Fevrier
Les Editions de la Dyle [Pontstraat, 80 B-9831 Sint Martens-Latem (Deurle), Belgique tel: +32(0)92810058], 2002. Pp. 160. 39 b/w photos. Map. Glossary. Pb. 19 Eur/125 FF. ISBN 90-76526-14-1.
At the end of June 1947, Dr Pierre Fevrier, arrived in Sana’a to join a French medical…
by Hugh Leach, Arabian Publishing, 2011. Pp.320. Maps. Illus. (148 duotone photographs). Glossary. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £45. ISBN:978-0-9558894-5-5.
'Cold voices whisper and say – he is crazed with the spell of far Arabia, they have stolen his wits away.'
The closing line of Walter de la Mare's poem…
by C. PHILLIPS
This article was published in the British Yemeni Soceity's journal, 1996
The pre-Islamic archaeological sites of the Yemen display all of the characteristics which archaeologists have traditionally used to define a civilisation. These include sites representative of urban communities…
by Duff Hart-Davis, Century (Random House), 2011. Pp.xviii382. Select Bibliog. Notes. Index. Illus. Map. Hb. £14.99. ISBN 978-1846058257.
This is a story from another age, when mercenaries fought for patriotism not million dollar contracts, when explosives could travel in airline baggage unimpeded…
by Patricia Aithie
On April 30th 1994, a new Yemeni Community Centre was opened in Cardiff. It followed the success in the 1980s of the building of a new mosque and Islamic centre in Alice Street, by the Cardiff Yemeni community. Built by contributions from the community themselves, individual…
Britain's First Muslims: Portrait of an Arab Community by Fred Halliday, I. B. Tauris, 2010. Pp. xxiii + 166. Appendices. Notes. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £15. 99. ISBN 978-1848852990.
When this fascinating book was first published asArabs in Exilein 1992, it might have been dismissed…
by BRIAN WHITAKER
Brian Whitaker is Managing Editor of the Guardian newspaper. He writes regularly on Yemeni affairs and is a member of the Society.
Relations between Britain and Yemen in 1999 were dominated by the saga of Abu Hamza al-Masri and the Islamic Army.
Abu Hamza is a preacher at Finsbury…
by Spencer Mawby
Routledge, London and New York, 2005. Pp.210. Notes. Bibliog. Refs. Index. Map. One plate. Hb. £75. ISBN 0-714-65459-0.
This is an important work for the Middle Eastern specialist and comes at a time of apparent re-awakened interest in Aden as the 40th anniversary of the British…
by Saleh Ahmed Eisa, published in Aden in Arabic for the Yemen Workers’ Trade Union Federation and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, ca.2010. Pp. 265. References and Appendices. Pb.
Aden was significant in Britain’s economy, global trade and military strategy. Its port, then the third busiest in the…
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
