These are some of the most insightful history books to add to your reading list. "Hands up all who know when Tsarist Russia took Finland from Sweden (1809) and when it partitioned Poland (1795)," said ...

Book Review: Houthis in Yemen, a new old story. Mahmoud El-Wardani, Monday 22 Jun 2015. Judge Al-Dimerdash Al-Aqaali devotes the greater part of his book to explore the creedal facets of the Zaydi ...

An outstanding book that provides answers to most questions raised by Yemen’s many crises since 2011, 25 Days to Aden discusses the effects of culture, religion, indoctrination and drug use in ...

Drawing on nearly two decades of research in Yemen, Philbrick Yadav traces the causes and consequences of the uprising of 2011, with an emphasis on the preoccupation of Yemeni activists, community ...

This collection of essays is a useful primer on the politics and economics of Yemen, now mired in war and dysfunction. Although the authors do address the “fragmented interventions” of various ...

According to the library, “The collection consists of some 45,000 manuscripts and legible fragments; and some 15,000 fragments extracted from book covers or removed from genizot.

History books will be harsh on us for ignoring Yemen. ... Comments. A woman carries her son Imran Faraj, 8 years old, who is suffering from malnutrition in Yemen (Abdul Jabbar Zeyad/Reuters) ...

This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Helen Lackner, the author of the new book, Yemen: Poverty and Conflict, who has spent five decades covering Yemen. They talk about how conflict has been endemic in ...

When the war first started in Yemen, Dearborn resident and educator Salwa Mawari would call her mom, who at the time was living in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital. “She would tell me story after ...

When Yemen appears in the international news, the stories are most often about the country’s brutal civil war, which has been raging since Houthi forces took over the capital in September 2014.

Farran collected experiences throughout his life to share his story, as an Arab-American, Muslim Marine who’d weathered the life of a hostage and lived in the book “Tightening Dark,” which ...