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Despairing Developer, The

29 January '14

This narrative relates the day-to-day experience of an aid worker in Yemen. The author casts an anthropological eye on the large range of people – permanent officials in aid organizations, temporary aid workers, the bureaucrats of the host country and community leaders – involved in the activities. Showing the differences of interests and values among […]

Arabs in Exile

29 January '14

Arab migration is not just a feature of recent instabilities in the Middle East. The Lebanese and Syrians have a long established history of migration to Africa, North and South America as well as Europe, while North African Arabs have long established links to France. The Yemeni community in Britain is one of the most […]

Yemeni Pottery

29 January '14

Distinctive pottery, characterised by lively forms and glazed, incised or brightly painted surfaces, has been made in the Yemen for many hundreds of years. In this, the first general introduction to a neglected subject, Sarah Posey surveys Yemeni potters and their techniques of making and decorating pots. The many varieties of vessels still made and […]

Yemen: The Tortuous Quest for Unity 1990-94

29 January '14

Examining the unification process between North and South Yemen, this study begins with the preparations during the 1970s and ’80s, which preceded union in 1990. It then examines the subsequent evolution of unity and the problems which led to internal war and the occupation of South Yemen by North Yemeni forces in 1994, concluding with […]

Sheba Revealed

29 January '14

During the late 1940s British governance of the Western Aden Protectorate was being tentatively extended, with a good deal of courage and optimism, by a handful of hardy officials whose reputation for incorruptibility and even-handedness went before them. Of these the young Nigel Groom was one. Posted to the almost inaccessible Wadi Bayhan in 1948, […]