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by NEIL ORR
The author was one of two doctors who accompanied the Oxford University Expedition to Soqotra in 1956. He made his first return visit to the island in January this year.
Having first visited Soqotra with the Oxford University Expedition in 1956, I was anxious that the magic of this…
Abd al-Aziz M-Saqqaf was a courageous warrior whose weapons were paper, ink and computers. As editor and publisher of the Yemen Times, he insisted on taking the country’s ostensibly liberal press law at its word — and regularly suffered the consequences.
Dr Saqqaf, a lecturer in economics at Sana’a…
Janet Stoltzfus, who established the first non-religious school in north Yemen, died on 5 March 2004 at the age of 73. She was married to William A. Stoltzfus Jr., who served as US Ambassador in all the Gulf states except Saudi Arabia. They had met in Beirut in 1953. He was there studying Arabic;…
Fred Halliday died in Barcelona on 26 April at the age of 64. He was well known personally to many members of the British-Yemeni Society, to which he himself belonged for many years, as well as for his books, articles and lectures on Yemen. There have been many obituaries acknowledging this…
by Helen Joly de Lotbinière
Helen de Lotbinière arrived in Aden in late 1939 to join her husband, Edmund, a Captain in the Royal Engineers, who had been posted there shortly after the outbreak of World War II. She was then 27 and it took all her youthful determination to overcome bureaucratic and…
Doreen Ingrams, who died on 25 July aged 91, came to personify one of the happier chapters in Britain’s relations with South West Arabia, where she and her husband Harold Ingrams lived and worked from 1934-44. This was the most challenging and fulfilling period of their lives and it inspired a…
The death of Shaikh Muhammad Qassim al-’Alawi in Birmingham on 2 June 1999, aged ninety, is a grievous loss to the Yemeni community in Britain, to whose spiritual welfare he devoted the greater part of his long life.
Shaikh Muhammad was born in the village of Shamir, near Ta’iz, where he had a…
by Helen Joly de Lotbinière
Helen de Lotbinière arrived in Aden in late 1939 to join her husband, Edmund, a Captain in the Royal Engineers, who had been posted there shortly after the outbreak of World War II. She was then 27 and it took all her youthful determination to overcome bureaucratic and…
George Popov, who died on 22 December 1998, was one of the least known but most experienced travellers in the Arabian Peninsula. He was born of Russian parents in Mashhad, Iran, where his father worked for the Imperial Bank. After his father’s death in the early years of World War II, his education…
by DAVID SMILEY
During the civil war in Yemen in the 1960s, Colonel Smiley, LVO MC OBE, served as military adviser to Imam Al-Badr and senior members of the Yemeni royal family. Before retiring from the British Army in 1961 he spent three years in Oman as Commander of the Sultan’s Armed Forces. He…
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
