Yemen Webdate Blog
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Yemen Webdate is the blog of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS). The aim of the blog is to provide up-to-date information on the academic study of Yemen with a focus on its history and culture. Follow this blog for more updates.
Yemen Webdate Blog
3d ago
To download the pdf in English click here.
تحميل الورقة كاملة كملف PDF
Executive Summary
Yemen's agricultural communities face a perfect storm of growing ecological threats amid protracted conflict. Flash floods destroy farms, crops, and irrigation systems. Late rains risk drowning mature harvests, and waterlogged fields hinder root growth. Coastal areas battle salinization, and collapsed roads and buried wells hamper recovery. As flooding and changing rainfall patterns undermine yields, farmers struggle to sustain their livelihoods. Over half of Yemen's population is dependent on farming and ..read more
Yemen Webdate Blog
5d ago
On Monday, March 25, 2024, at 16:00 (Central European Time), the third lecture in the Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series will take place online (Zoom). The speaker is Mahmood Kooria (Edinburgh University) who will speak on the topic “Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century”. The discussant is Roxani Eleni Margariti (Emory University).
A full description of the event and the registration link for the event can be found here: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2024/0 ..read more
Yemen Webdate Blog
1w ago
From the Facebook Page of Fahad al-Anbari.
As you can see, the "translate" function on Facebook leaves much to be desired... It simply cannot understand local placenames ..read more
Yemen Webdate Blog
1w ago
To register for her free talk in Chicago, click here.
Examples of Alia's art are on her website.
Below is an example from her website ..read more
Yemen Webdate Blog
1w ago
The library of the San‘a Great Mosque has a Facebook site.
Check it out for illustrations of manuscripts and information on the collection ..read more
Yemen Webdate Blog
1w ago
Above: Autograph of the scholar al-Fīrūzābādī.
One of the major Islamic scholars of the Rasulid era in Yemen was Muḥammad b. Ya‘qūb al-Fīrūzābādī (1329-1414) who served as Chief Qāḍī in the court of al-Malik al-Ashraf Ismā‘īl. One of his most famous works is a major lexicon called al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, which can be searched online ..read more
Yemen Webdate Blog
2w ago
The mega-site archive.org has a number of Yemeni books in pdf that would be hard to find through their search function. For a source of 68 Arabic books on a variety of subjects concerning Yemen, click here ..read more