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by JULIAN LUSH
SANA’A, 28-30 JUNE 1999
Towards the end of June, more than two hundred delegates from 16 recently established democracies, plus representatives of countries and organisations supporting this Forum, assembled in Sana’a. Sponsored by the National Democratic Institute for International…
by Dr Muhammad Sa’id al-Qaddal
and Abdulaziz Ali bin Salah al-Qu’aiti
University of Aden Press, 1999. Arabic. Pp. 194. Illus. Notes. Bibliog. Pb.
Sultan Ali bin Salah al-Qu’aiti was a senior member of the Qu’aiti dynasty which until 1967 ruled most of the territory known as Hadhramaut — formerly…
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.
The high point of the year for President Ali Abdullah Salih was surely his attendance at the G-8 summit of industrialised countries in June.…
Book review
Yemen: World Bibliographical Series, Vol 50
Revised edition compiled by Paul Auchterlonie
Clio Press, 1998. Pp. xx + 348. Map. Indices. Bibliog. Hb. £63.
Not long after Yemen’s unification in 1990, my name was recommended to Clio Press to compile the revised edition of Volume 50(Yemen)…
Wing Commander Aubrey Rickards (1898—1937) holds a distinctive place in the annals of British penetration of southern Arabia. But his role is not widely known; he did not live to tell the tale. In 1937 he was killed in an air crash in southern Oman. He was 39, and had already had an eventful career…
Co-Presidents
HE Dr Yassin Saeed Nu’man, Yemeni Ambassador to the UK
HE Edmund Fitton-Brown, British Ambassador to Yemen
Vice-Presidents
Dr Abdulla Abdul Wali Nasher
Douglas Gordon
Dirhem Abdo Saeed
Chairman
Dr Robert Wilson OBE
Vice-Chairman
Julian Lush
Hon. Secretary
Audrey Allfree
Hon. Treasurer…
by Michael Whittall
Oil production in the Yemen is in the region of 320,000 barrels per day and has not changed radically over the past few years. The current production is from the Yemen Hunt fields in Marib and Canadian Occidental’s Masila field, both discovered prior to the exploration boom in…
by JOHN SHIPMAN
The archive of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA) contains six photographs taken during the Mission to Sana’a led by Sir Gilbert Clayton (1875—1929) in 1926. Five of these are reproduced here by kind permission of the RSAA. The photographs are mounted on board and captioned…
On 17 November 2004 Major-General Mujahid bin Yahya Abu Shawarib, Personal Adviser to the Yemeni President, was returning to Sana’a from a visit to his farm at ‘Abs in the far north-west of Yemen when, just half an hour’s drive from the capital, his vehicle was involved in a fatal accident.
He was…
David Ledger, who died on 12 November 2008, will be remembered by members of the Society who served in Aden during the traumatic events that led up to British withdrawal in 1967. He will however be known to a wider audience as the author of Shifting Sands: The British in South Arabia (1983). Many…
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
