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Obituaries have been published inThe TimesandDaily Telegraph,inThe Yemen TimesandAl Ayyam,so here I shall concentrate on the considerable debt which the Society owes to Jim.
I first met him in 1962 in Aden, and his deep knowledge of Yemen and the very special affinity which he had with Yemenis was…
Bernard Mills
Major Bernard Mills CBE has been a member of the Society since its formation in 1993. After retiring from the British Army he served, under the aegis of Colonel Smiley, as a military adviser to Royalist forces in Yemen.
David Smiley, who died on 9 January 2009 aged 93, was born in…
Shelagh Weir writes:
Mark Littlewood, who died on 17 December 2004, worked as Medical Officer at the BP Oil Refinery in Aden between 1961 and 1973. During his years in Aden he pursued his two great hobbies of photography and collecting pottery, and in the late 1960s he offered his pottery…
Abdo Nagi Abdullah Kaid was born in the village of Shuhali, Ibb Province, during the reign of Imam Yahya; his father owned a terraced farm and made traditional wooden locks. From early childhood Abdo spent many long days on rugged hillsides watching over his father’s goats, fascinated by the shapes…
Jarallah ‘Umar was born in Kuhal in the province of Ibb. His father, a teacher in the village school, died some six months after his birth, After receiving his basic education in Kuhal, he moved north to Dhamar to study at the Madrasa Shamsiyya, and then in 1960 moved to Sana’a, where he…
Sayyid Ahmad al-Shami was one of the most gifted Yemenis of his generation: politician, diplomat, scholar, historian, poet and man of letters. He was active on the Yemeni scene from the early 1940s until well into the period after the final reconciliation of Royalists and Republicans in 1970.
Ahmad…
by Saleem Haddad and Joshua Rogers
This article is based on Saleem Haddad’s talk to the Society on 28 March 2012. Saleem Haddad and Joshua Rogers work for Saferworld’s Yemen programme. The programme focuses on promoting political inclusion and enhancing understand- ings of security and justice…
lencairn Balfour Paul, Arabist and former diplomat, who died on 2 July 2008 at the age of 90, spent much of his retirement in close association with the University of Exeter. As an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter’s Centre for Arab Gulf Studies (later the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies) he…
by Jim Ellis
This article was published in the British Yemeni Society's journal, 2000. Itis an abridged version of a paper which Jim Ellisdrafted in 1993/94. It draws on his unique knowledge of the border area between Saudi Arabia and southern Yemen, before British withdrawal from the region in…
The ex-Minister for Oil and Mineral Development of the united Yemen, Salih bin Husainun, and his son Anwar were killed in fighting near Fuwa, a few miles west of Mukalla on the Hadhrami coast of Yemen on 4th July 1994.
Sayyid Salih Abubakr bin Husainun was born in a reed hut in about 1936 near…
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
