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Faisal bin Shamlan campaigning in Sana’a
for election to the presidency, September
2006. Courtesy: Saleh al-Sareemi,
al-SahwaNet.
Faisal Othman bin Shamlan al-Tamimi, intellectual, technocrat and public figure, died in Little Aden on 1 January 2010 after a long struggle against…
Dr Abdulla Abdul Wali Nasher
The author, a Vice-President of the Society, served for several years as Minister of Health in Sana’a before being appointed Yemen’s Ambassador to Ottawa in 2003. His tour as Ambassador ended in November 2008. We are indebted to him for contributing this account of his…
Dr Faraj bin Ghanem, a former Minister, Prime Minister and senior diplomat, was a leading figure in the political and economic life of Yemen.
Following his death on 5 August 2007 he was accorded the national hon- our of a state funeral.
He was born in Shihr in the province of Hadhramaut in…
Robin Bidwell, one time political officer in the Western Aden Protectorate and author of several works on Yemen and its history, died suddenly at his home in Coney Weston, Suffolk, on 10th April 1994.
Educated at Downside and Pembroke College, Cambridge, Robin Bidwell gained a first in history. His…
by Rebecca Johnson
Yemenis in Britain were the focus of two exhibitions which I had the opportunity to visit in April this year. The first, entitled The Last of the Dictionary Men – Stories from South Shields’Yemeni Sailors, was held at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. The…
Murray (Alexander Mungo) Graham, who died in September 2008, was one of the first to join the British-Yemeni Society when it was formed in 1993. Born in Rhodesia, he was brought up and educated in South Africa. After the war, in which he served in the South African Air Force, he moved to Britain…
John Peterson writes:
My first contact with Leigh Douglas came as I was preparing to conduct fieldwork in Yemen on a study of political change during the reigns of Imams Yahya and Ahmad. Knowing that we had common interests, Leigh contacted me and we met in London.
More particularly, Leigh was…
Sheikh Sa'id in his office at the South Wales Islamic Centre, Cardiff, 1990.
Charles and Patricia Aithie
Sheikh Sa'id Hassan Ismail who died on 23 March 2011 at the age of 81, was the Imam and leader of the Yemeni Community in Cardiff, where he lived for more than sixty years. Of the…
Bani al-Ghuzzi, Jebel Raimah
Tomb of the Faqih and adjoining cemetery.
Photograph: Julian Lush
Yarim. The cemetery and mountain ridge sketched by Neibuhr.
Photograph: Julian Lush
In the Jebel Haraz
Photograph: Julian Lush…
Hisham Ba-Shraheel Hisham’s death on 16 June 2012 grieved many within and well beyond Yemen’s borders; numerous obituaries referred to his generosity of spirit as an abiding characteristic. He was highly respected by the ordinary person in the street, men and women in Yemen’s corridors of power…
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
