Chaos in Yemen challenges recent interpretations of Yemen's complex social, political and economic transformations since 1990. It offers a new perspective to the violence afflicting the region, and explains why the Ali Abdullah Salih regime has become the principal beneficiary of this violence.
In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled in a dangerous local conflict and tribal hostilities simmered for months. Yemen Chronicle is his extraordinary report both on events that ensued and on the many …
South Yemen has come to be seen as a potential Al-Qaeda stronghold and at the heart of a separatist movement threatening to rip apart southern Arabia. How has this country of forbidding mountains and arid deserts gone from British colony to communist state and then to 'terrorist base' in just half a century? In Yemen Divided, author and Middle East expert Noel Brehony tells for the first time t…
The terrorism phenomenon, which occurred since mankind was created, has been always denounced and rejected throughout history. So it is as old as mankind. But it is in human nature to love goodness, peace, security and stability while evil and violence have remained strange and anomalous manifestations and contrary to God's creation of man. Thus, human history has bad memories of these manifest…
In "Undercover Muslim", Theo Padnos brilliantly evokes a landscape and journey that few Westerners have experienced. He investigates the radicalisation of these disaffected young men as they move, almost unnoticed, from London, Berlin or Paris to their new spiritual home in Yemen. Padnos' journey takes him from the newsroom of a Yemeni newspaper to the prayer rows and lecture rooms of Yemen's m…
A collection of photographs which capture the essence of Yemen; from the textured terraces of Mahwit and Tawilla, to the labyrinth of lanes in the capital, Sanaa; from the bustling market life of the Tihama people, to the tranquility of marine life on Uqban Island in the Red Sea.
Why is oil-rich Saudi Arabia involved in a costly and merciless war against neighbouring Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East? Why, with billions of dollars of British and American weapons, have the Saudis lost the upper hand to the Houthi rebels? In this first authoritative account of the present conflict, Ginny Hill delves into a country still dominated by the pernicious influence…
In recent years, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been widely recognized as a more dangerous regional and international terrorist organization than the original al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden until his death in 2011. In 2010-11, AQAP was able to present a strong challenge to Yemen's government by capturing and retaining large areas in the southern part of the country. Yemen's new r…
The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Taking readers from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges- in kinship and writing-that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vi…