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Yemen

Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848546963
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Yemen written by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.

A Journey Through the Yemen and Some General Remarks Upon that Country

Author : Walter Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Journey Through the Yemen and Some General Remarks Upon that Country written by Walter Harris and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Modern Yemen

Author : Paul Dresch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521794824
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Yemen written by Paul Dresch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and fast moving account of twentieth-century Yemeni history.

Yemen Chronicle

Author : Steven Charles Caton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809027255
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Yemen Chronicle written by Steven Charles Caton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. Soon he was embroiled in a dangerous local conflict. This is Caton's touchingly candid account of the extraordinary events that ensued.

Yemen

Author : Victoria Clark
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300167342
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Yemen written by Victoria Clark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another -- links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth -- then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal makeup and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements. Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen's history before examining the country's role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear, and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader"--Publisher description.

Yemen Endures

Author : Ginny Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190862793
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Yemen Endures written by Ginny Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, involved in a costly and merciless war against its mountainous southern neighbor Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East? When the Saudis attacked the hitherto obscure Houthi militia, which they believed had Iranian backing, to oust Yemen's government in 2015, they expected an easy victory. They appealed for Western help and bought weapons worth billions of dollars from Britain and America; yet two years later the Houthis, a unique Shia sect, have the upper hand. In her revealing portrait of modern Yemen, Ginny Hill delves into its recent history, dominated by the enduring and pernicious influence of career dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled for three decades before being forced out by street protests in 2011. Saleh masterminded patronage networks that kept the state weak, allowing conflict, social inequality and terrorism to flourish. In the chaos that follows his departure, civil war and regional interference plague the country while separatist groups, Al-Qaeda and ISIS compete to exploit the broken state. And yet, Yemen endures.

Undercover Muslim

Author : Theo Padnos
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1847920845
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Undercover Muslim written by Theo Padnos and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of how a Westerner ventured into the heart of radical Islam in Yemen.

Literature of Travel and Exploration

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456631
Total Pages : 1425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen

Author : Paul Dresch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen written by Paul Dresch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the values and traditions the tribal people bring to the contemporary world of nation-states, and discusses the relation of the major tribes to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, ideas of contemporary statehood, and the area as a whole.

Yemen and the World

Author : Laurent Bonnefoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190922591
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Yemen and the World written by Laurent Bonnefoy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of Yemen and its people extends far beyond its nominal borders, both historically and in the present day, as Laurent Bonnefoy reveals

A Winter in Arabia

Author : Freya Stark
Publisher : Tauris Parke
ISBN 13 : 9780755633821
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book A Winter in Arabia written by Freya Stark and published by Tauris Parke. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored its vast hinterlands. In 1934, she made her first journey to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen - the first woman to do so alone. Even though that journey ended in disappointment, sickness and a forced rescue, Stark, undeterred, returned to Yemen two years later. Starting in Mukalla and skirting the fringes of the legendary and unexplored Empty Quarter, she spent the winter searching for Shabwa - ancient capital of the Hadhramaut and a holy grail for generations of explorers. From within Stark's beautifully-crafted and deeply knowledgeable narrative emerges a rare and exquisitely-rendered portrait of the customs and cultures of the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. "A Winter in Arabia" is one of the most important pieces of literature on the region and a book that placed Freya Stark in the pantheon of great writers and explorers of the Arab World. To listen to her voice is to hear the rich echoes of a land whose 'nakedness is clothed in shreds of departed splendour'.

The Camel's Neighbor

Author : Andrew Moscrop
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781623719340
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Camel's Neighbor written by Andrew Moscrop and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, a coup d'état in Sanaa paved the way for a devastating conflict in Yemen. Andrew Moscrop, a physician, cancelled plans to return to the country that he had once called home. Instead, he returned to his diaries and delved into memories of a time when he lived in a rambling old tower house in Sanaa. As the war unfolded, he re-read the accounts of past travelers to the country. And while working in Greece, treating refugees from other Middle Eastern war zones, he began writing a book set in Yemen. Examining the impressions of adventurers, merchants, and scientists, as well as travel writers, Moscrop explores how Yemen has been seen and understood by foreigners from Europe and the US. These visitors include blundering missionaries, aristocratic Englishmen, and unlikely spies. Moscrop delivers an intriguing perspective on Western encounters with the Islamic world, examining the imagery and clichés by which Yemen has been represented from the sixteenth century to the resent. Evocative descriptions of Sanaa and its unique cityscape, as well as empathetic portrayals of people encountered and events experienced, all create a narrative by turns thoughtful and unexpected.

Islands of Heritage

Author : Nathalie Peutz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503607151
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Islands of Heritage written by Nathalie Peutz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, the island is home not only to birds, reptiles, and plants found nowhere else on earth, but also to a rich cultural history and the endangered Soqotri language. Within the span of a decade, this Indian Ocean archipelago went from being among the most marginalized regions of Yemen to promoted for its outstanding global value. Islands of Heritage shares Soqotrans' stories to offer the first exploration of environmental conservation, heritage production, and development in an Arab state. Examining the multiple notions of heritage in play for twenty-first-century Soqotra, Nathalie Peutz narrates how everyday Soqotrans came to assemble, defend, and mobilize their cultural and linguistic heritage. These efforts, which diverged from outsiders' focus on the island's natural heritage, ultimately added to Soqotrans' calls for political and cultural change during the Yemeni Revolution. Islands of Heritage shows that far from being merely a conservative endeavor, the protection of heritage can have profoundly transformative, even revolutionary effects. Grassroots claims to heritage can be a potent form of political engagement with the most imminent concerns of the present: human rights, globalization, democracy, and sustainability.

Arabia Felix

Author : Alessandro De Maigret
Publisher : Stacey International Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arabia Felix written by Alessandro De Maigret and published by Stacey International Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in Italian in 1996, this has become the classic introduction to the history and archaeology of southern Arabia. Now in English, it make all the evidence available to a new audience. The first part of the book reviews what is known about the region from early visitors to the area from the 15th century onwards and from the resea

The Monk of Mokha

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101947322
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Monk of Mokha written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monk of Mokha is the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana’a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen’s central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral homeland to tour terraced farms high in the country’s rugged mountains and meet beleagured but determined farmers. But when war engulfs the country and Saudi bombs rain down, Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen without sacrificing his dreams or abandoning his people.

Reports from Hell

Author : Chas Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781644280751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Reports from Hell written by Chas Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go To Hell, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction and Cocaine + Surfing A gonzo ride through the Middle East as only Chas Smith, the award-winning author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell and Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair, could provide. Follow Smith and his misfit band of merrymakers as they search for the true origins of Al Qaeda and endeavor to ride the unsurfed waves of Yemen all while exploring the slim opportunities for fun in the margins of our global war on terror and at what cost--even if it means eventual kidnapping by Hezbollah.

Historical Dictionary of Yemen

Author : Robert D. Burrowes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810855283
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Yemen written by Robert D. Burrowes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small and extremely poor Islamic country, Yemen is located on the edge of the Arab world in the southernmost corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It was the product of the unification of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990. The location of the two Yemens on the world's busiest sea-lane at the southern end of the Red Sea where Asia almost meets Africa gave them strategic significance from the start of the age of imperialism through the Cold War. More vital today is the fact that Yemen shares a long border with oil-rich Saudi Arabia and is a key to efforts both to spread and to end global revolutionary Islam and its use of terror. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Yemen has been thoroughly updated and greatly expanded. Through its list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries, greater attention has been given to foreign affairs, economic institutions and policies, social issues, religion, and politics.