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Cities in Yemen

List of cities in Yemen
Aden
Aden
Aden is a seaport city in Yemen, located by the eastern approach to the Red Sea , some 170 kilometres east of Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000. Aden's ancient, natural harbour lies in the crater of an extinct volcano which now forms a peninsula, joined to the mainland by a...
Ahwar
Ahwar
Ahwar a town in south-central Yemen. It is located at around . It is the capital of the Lower Aulaqi. Wadi Ahwar flows into the sea near here....
Al Qasha
Al Qasha
Al Qasha was the capital of the Alawi sheikhdom in south Yemen. It is a small city bordering northern Yemen.The city was founded by sheikh Sayel Bin Alawi Al Rabaa in 1743, after he left his home in Najran to avoid problems between his family, the Hepatullah royal family of Najran, and his wife's...
Baraqish
Baraqish
Baraqish or Barakish is a town in northwestern Yemen. It is located at around . It was known to the Greeks and Romans as Athlula , from the ancient Sabaean YTL. A Roman army passed through it during the 20s B.C., under the command of Aelius Gallus. The tomb of a Roman cavalryman, P. Cornelius, has...
Al Bayda', Yemen
Al Bayda', Yemen
Al Bayda, also transliterated as Al-Baidhah or Beida , not to be mixed with al-Bayda' in al-Jawf, the ancient Nashqum) is a town in central Yemen, in the Governorate of Al Bayda'. It is located 130 miles SE of Sanaa, at ....
Beihan
Beihan
Beihan , also known as Bayhan al Qisab , is a city in western Yemen. According to the census of 2005 conducted by the Yemeni government, the town has about 100,000 inhabitants...
Ad Dali'
Ad Dali'
Ad Dali is a capital town of Ad Dali' Governorate, southwestern Yemen. It is located at around , in the elevation of around 1500 metres....
Dhamar, Yemen
Dhamar, Yemen
Dhamar is a city in southwestern Yemen. It is located at , at an elevation of around 2400 metres.-Overview:Dhamar is situated 100 km to the south of Sana'a, north of Ibb, and west of Al-Beidha, 2700 m above sea level. Its name “Dhamar” goes back to the king of Sheba and Dou-Reddan at 15-35 AD...
Furah
Furah
Furah is a coastal town on Kamaran Island, Yemen. It is located at around ....
Al Ghaydah
Al Ghaydah
Al Ghaydah is the capital city of Al Mahrah Governorate in southeastern Yemen. It is located at around ....
Hadiboh
Hadiboh
Hadibu , formerly known as Tamrida, is a coastal town in northern Socotra , not far from the mount Jabal al-Jahir. It is the central and largest city of the small archipelago, with a population 8,545 as of 2004 census of population. Hadibu is also the capital of the larger eastern district of...
Hajjah
Hajjah
Hajjah is the capital city of Hajjah Governorate in northwestern Yemen. It is located 127 kilometres northwest of Sana'a, at an elevation of about 1800 metres. As of 2003, the Hajjah City District had a population of 53,887 inhabitants....
Al Hudaydah
Al Hudaydah
Al Hudaydah is the fourth largest city in Yemen with a population of 400,000 people, and the centre of Al Hudaydah Governorate.-Overview:...
Ibb
Ibb
Ibb is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, situated on a mountain ridge, surrounded by fertile land and is known as "The Green City". It is located about 73 miles north-east of Mocha. Ibb was governed by a semi-autonomous emir until 1944, when the emirate was abolished...
Jibla
Jibla
Jibla is a town in southwestern Yemen, close to Ibb. It is located at around , at the elevation of around 2,200 meters. The town and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List due to its purported universal cultural value....
Kawkaban
Kawkaban
Kawkaban is a town midway between Sana'a and Al-Mahweet. It is of particular historical importance for the Zaidiyyah, having been a stronghold for Yemeni kings due to its advantageous position. It is situated atop a plateau at 2750m above sea level. The sole entrance to the town is via a single...
Lahij
Lahij
Lahij or Lahej is a city and an area located between Ta'izz and Aden in Yemen. From the 18th to the 20th century, its rulers were of the Al-Abdali family who with Al-Sallami, Al-Ramada, Al-Sindi and al-Aqrabi, claims relation to Ahl al-Bayt...
Ma'rib
Ma'rib
Ma'rib or Marib is the capital town of the Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen and was the capital of the Sabaean kingdom, which some scholars believe to be the ancient Sheba of biblical fame. It is located at , approximately 120 kilometers east of Yemen's modern capital, Sana'a...
Al Mahwit
Al Mahwit
Al Mahwit is a capital city of Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen. It is located at around , at an elevation of about 2000 metres....
Makram
Makram
Makram is a coastal town on Kamaran Island in the Red Sea. It is situated in the Al Hudaydah Governorate of Yemen, at ....
Mocha, Yemen
Mocha, Yemen
Mocha or Mokha is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Until it was eclipsed in the 19th century by Aden and Hodeida, Mocha was the principal port for Yemen's capital Sana'a.-Overview:...
Al Mukalla
Al Mukalla
Al Mukalla is a main sea port and the capital city of the Hadramaut coastal region in Yemen in the southern part of Arabia on the Gulf of Aden close to the Arabian Sea...
Mukayras
Mukayras
Mukayras is a town in Abyan Governorate, Yemen. It is located at around at an elevation of about 2170 m.It was one of the South Yemen Protectorates under British rule 1839-1967...
Nishtun
Nishtun
Nishtun is a coastal town in southeastern Yemen. It is located at around ....
Qishn
Qishn
Qishn is a coastal town in Al Mahrah Governorate, southern Yemen. It is located at around . Its population is estimated at more than 80000. It has a landing strip, which is currently not in use....
Sa'dah
Sa'dah
Sa`dah is the capital city of Saada Governorate in north-western Yemen. It is located at , at an elevation of about 1,800 meters. Known in antiquity as Karna, its population in 2004 was estimated at 51,870.- External links :*...
As Salif
As Salif
As-Salif is a coastal village in western Yemen. It is located in a bay of a headland that forms the southern coast of the Kamaran Bay. As-Salif is recognized for its large deposits of rock salt. The salt is mined by a government-owned corporation. As-Salif is located at around ....
San‘a’
Sayfaf
Sayfaf
Sayfaf is a coastal town in Kamaran Island, Yemen. It is located at around ....
Seiyun
Seiyun
Say'un is a town in the Hadhramaut region of Yemen. Postage stamps from the former Aden Protectorate sultanate of Kathiri are sometimes inscribed "Kathiri State of Seiyun." As of 2006 the population was 75,700....
Shibam
Shibam
Shibam is a town in Yemen with about 7,000 inhabitants. The first known inscription about the city dates from the 3rd century AD...
Ash Shihr
Ash Shihr
Ash Shihr is a coastal town in Hadhramaut, southern Yemen. It is located at around . It was a part of the Qu'aiti Sultanate before the unified Yemen was formed.-External Links:*...
Shuqrah
Shuqrah
Shuqrah is a coastal town in southern Yemen. It was the capital of the Fadhli Sultanate until the capital moved to Zinjibar in 1962, although the royal residence remained in Shuqrah....
Steroh
Steroh
Steroh is a coastal town in southern Socotra, Yemen. It is located at around ....
Ta'izz
Ta'izz
Ta'izz , or Taiz, is a city in the Yemeni Highlands, near the famous Mocha port on the Red Sea, lying at an elevation of about 1,400 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Ta'izz Governorate...
Tarim, Yemen
Tarim, Yemen
Tarim is a historic town situated in the Hadhramaut Valley of South Yemen, South Arabia. Tarim is widely acknowledged as the theological, juridical, and academic center of the Hadhramaut Valley. An important locus of Islamic learning, it is estimated to contain the highest concentration of...
Thamud, Yemen
Thamud, Yemen
Thamud is a town in northeastern Yemen. It is located at around ....
Yarim
Yarim
-Geography:It lies in the heart of the Yemen Highlands, on an upland plateau dominated by the massif of nearby Mount Sumarah, which rises to about 10,000 feet above sea level.-History:...
Zabid
Zabid
Zabid is a town with an urban population of around 23,000 persons on Yemen's western coastal plain. The town, named after Wadi Zabid, the wadi to its south, is one of the oldest towns in Yemen...
Zinjibar
Zinjibar
Zinjibar is a port and coastal town in south-central Yemen, the capital of Zinjibar District and the Abyan Governorate. It is located next to the Wadi Bana in the Abyan Delta. From 1962 to 1967, it was the administrative capital of the Fadhli Sultanate, although the royal residence remained at...

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Communications in Yemen

Communications in Yemen
Communications in Yemen
There are a number of systems of communications in Yemen.TeleYemen is the exclusive provider of international telecommunications for Yemen—fixed-line and wireless mobile companies, telex, and Internet services—and is one of the mobile-phone operators...
Internet usage in Yemen
Internet usage in Yemen
Internet usage in Yemen began in 1996 through the ISP TeleYemen and the Public Telecommunications Corporation.-Growth:Development of the telecommunications and information technology sectors in Yemen occurred from 2000 to 2005...
Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
Aden is a city in Yemen. Aden's location made it a popular exchange port for mail passing between places around the Indian Ocean and Europe. Mail is known to exist from June 15, 1839, although a regular postmaster was not appointed until 1857....
.ye
.ye
-Second level domains:There are eight Second Level Domains:* com.ye: Commercial Entities* co.ye: Companies* ltd.ye: Limited Companies* me.ye: Private Individuals* net.ye: Network Providers...

Yemeni culture

Yemeni architecture

Mud Brick Architecture of Yemen, article in www.theglobaldispatches.com

Buildings and structures in Yemen

Languages of Yemen

Yemenite Hebrew language
Yemenite Hebrew language
Yemenite Hebrew , also referred to as Temani Hebrew , is the pronunciation system for Biblical and liturgical Hebrew traditionally used by Yemenite Jews. Yemenite Jews brought their language to Israel through immigration. Their first organized immigration to the region began in 1882.It is believed...
Mehri language
Mehri language
Mehri or Mahri is a Modern South Arabian language, a branch of the greater Semitic language family, and is spoken by minority populations in isolated areas of the eastern part of Yemen and western Oman. It is a remnant of the ancient indigenous language group spoken in the southern Arabian...
Sanaani Hebrew language
Soqotri language
Soqotri language
Soqotri, or Socotri, is the language of the native population of the island of Socotra, and Abd al Kuri and Samhah islands of the Socotra archipelago off the southern coast of the Republic of Yemen...

Universities and colleges in Yemen

University of Aden
University of Aden
The University of Aden is the first Yemeni University founded in the Republic of Yemen beside San'a University. Its emergence constitutes a true extension and a continuation of the cultural and educational traditions of the Yemeni people and a fulfillment of goals of the two September and October...
Lebanese International University
Lebanese International University
The Lebanese International University is a private university established by the philanthropist and former Lebanese defense and education minister Abdul Rahim Mourad...

Geography of Yemen

Geography of Yemen
Geography of Yemen
Yemen is located in Southwest Asia at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula between Oman and Saudi Arabia. It is situated at the entrance to the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which links the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and is one of the most active and strategic shipping lanes in the world...
Bab-el-Mandeb
Bab-el-Mandeb
The Bab-el-Mandeb meaning "Gate of Grief" in Arabic , is a strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, Djibouti and Eritrea, north of Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, and connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden...
Gulf of Aden
Gulf of Aden
The Gulf of Aden is located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen, on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa. In the northwest, it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, which is about 20 miles wide....
Hadhramaut
Hadhramaut
Hadhramaut, Hadhramout, Hadramawt or Ḥaḍramūt is the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate encompassing a historical region of the south Arabian Peninsula along the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea, extending eastwards from Yemen to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman...
ISO 3166-2:YE
ISO 3166-2:YE
ISO 3166-2:YE is the entry for Yemen in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Yemen, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined...
Lower Yemen
Lower Yemen
Lower Yemen and Upper Yemen are traditional regions of the north western highland mountains of Yemen. Northern Highlands and Southern Highlands are terms more commonly used presently. The Sumara Mountains just south of the town of Yarim denote the boundaries of the two regions. These two...
Bab Iskender
Bab Iskender
The Bab Iskender is the eastern section wide and of the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, which separates Ras Menheli, Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula and Ras Siyan, Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa...
Ras Menheli
Ras Menheli
Ras Menheli is a point in Yemen on the coast of Bab-el-Mandeb close to the island of Perim....
Saudi-Yemen barrier
Saudi-Yemen barrier
The Saudi–Yemen barrier is a physical barrier constructed by Saudi Arabia along part of its border with Yemen. It consists of a network of sandbags and pipelines, three metres high, filled with concrete and fitted with electronic detection equipment.When construction of the barrier began in...
Tihamah
Tihamah
Tihamah or Tihama is a narrow coastal region of Arabia on the Red Sea. It is currently divided between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. In a broad sense, Tihamah refers to the entire coastline from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb Strait but it more often refers only to its southern half, starting...
Upper Yemen
Upper Yemen
Upper Yemen and Lower Yemen are traditional regions of the north western highland mountains of Yemen. Northern Highlands and Southern Highlands are terms more commonly used presently. The Sumara Mountains just south of the town of Yarim denote the boundaries of the two regions. These two...

Yemen geography stubs

'Adan Governorate
'Adan Governorate
Adan is a governorate of Yemen, including the city of Aden. At the 2004 census it had a population of 589,419. The ancient capital, the port city of Crater, was located here....
'Amran Governorate
'Amran Governorate
Amran is a governorate of Yemen.-Districts:*Al Ashah District*Al Madan District*Al Qaflah District*Amran District*As Sawd District*As Sudah District*Bani Suraim District*Dhi Bin District*Habur Zulaymah District*Harf Sufyan District...
Abyan Governorate
Ad Dali'
Ad Dali'
Ad Dali is a capital town of Ad Dali' Governorate, southwestern Yemen. It is located at around , in the elevation of around 1500 metres....
Ad Dali' Governorate
Ad Dali' Governorate
Ad Dali is a governorate of Yemen.-Districts:*Ad Dhale'e District*Al Azariq District*Al Husha District*Al Hussein District*Ash Shu'ayb District*Damt District*Jahaf District*Juban District*Qa'atabah District...
Aden (colony)
Aden (colony)
The Colony of Aden or Aden Colony was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963, and consisted of the port city of Aden and its immediate surroundings The Colony of Aden or Aden Colony was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963, and consisted of the port city of Aden and its immediate...
Ahwar
Ahwar
Ahwar a town in south-central Yemen. It is located at around . It is the capital of the Lower Aulaqi. Wadi Ahwar flows into the sea near here....
Al Batinah, Yemen
Al Bayda' Governorate
Al Bayda' Governorate
Al Bayda , also spelt Al-Baidhah or Beida, is one of the 19 governorates of Yemen. It is located near the centre of the country, around the town of Al Bayda'.Its population, according to the 2004 Yemeni census, was 571,778....
Al Bayda', Yemen
Al Bayda', Yemen
Al Bayda, also transliterated as Al-Baidhah or Beida , not to be mixed with al-Bayda' in al-Jawf, the ancient Nashqum) is a town in central Yemen, in the Governorate of Al Bayda'. It is located 130 miles SE of Sanaa, at ....
Al Ghaydah
Al Ghaydah
Al Ghaydah is the capital city of Al Mahrah Governorate in southeastern Yemen. It is located at around ....
Al Hudaydah
Al Hudaydah
Al Hudaydah is the fourth largest city in Yemen with a population of 400,000 people, and the centre of Al Hudaydah Governorate.-Overview:...
Al Hudaydah Governorate
Al Hudaydah Governorate
Al Hudaydah is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Al Hudaydah.This governorate borders the Red Sea and is part of the narrow Tihamah region...
Al Jawf Governorate
Al Jawf Governorate
Al Jawf is a governorate of Yemen.-Districts:*Al Ghayl District*Al Hazm District*Al Humaydat District*Al Khalq District*Al Maslub District*Al Matammah District*Al Maton District*Az Zahir District*Bart Al Anan District*Khabb wa ash Sha'af District...
Al Mahrah Governorate
Al Mahrah Governorate
Al Mahrah or Mahra is a governorate of Yemen in the southern Arabian Peninsula. Situated in the area of the former Mahra Sultanate, its capital is Al Ghaydah....
Al Mahwit
Al Mahwit
Al Mahwit is a capital city of Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen. It is located at around , at an elevation of about 2000 metres....
Al Mahwit Governorate
Al Mahwit Governorate
Al Mahwit is one of the governorates of Yemen.-Districts:*Al Khabt District*Al Mahwait District*Al Mahwait City District*Ar Rujum District*At Tawilah District*Bani Sa'd District*Hufash District*Milhan District*Shibam Kawkaban District...
Al Mukalla
Al Mukalla
Al Mukalla is a main sea port and the capital city of the Hadramaut coastal region in Yemen in the southern part of Arabia on the Gulf of Aden close to the Arabian Sea...
Al Qasha
Al Qasha
Al Qasha was the capital of the Alawi sheikhdom in south Yemen. It is a small city bordering northern Yemen.The city was founded by sheikh Sayel Bin Alawi Al Rabaa in 1743, after he left his home in Najran to avoid problems between his family, the Hepatullah royal family of Najran, and his wife's...
Alawi (sheikhdom)
Alawi (sheikhdom)
Alawi , or the Alawi Sheikhdom , was one of the original "Nine Cantons" that signed protection agreements with Great Britain in the late 19th century and became part of the British Aden Protectorate. It was later in the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of...
Aqrabi
Aqrabi
Aqrabi , or the Aqrabi Sheikhdom , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Bir Ahmad.-History:...
As Salif
As Salif
As-Salif is a coastal village in western Yemen. It is located in a bay of a headland that forms the southern coast of the Kamaran Bay. As-Salif is recognized for its large deposits of rock salt. The salt is mined by a government-owned corporation. As-Salif is located at around ....
Ash Shihr
Ash Shihr
Ash Shihr is a coastal town in Hadhramaut, southern Yemen. It is located at around . It was a part of the Qu'aiti Sultanate before the unified Yemen was formed.-External Links:*...
Audhali
Audhali
Audhali , or the Audhali Sultanate , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia, in 1963. Its capital was Zarah...
Bab Iskender
Bab Iskender
The Bab Iskender is the eastern section wide and of the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, which separates Ras Menheli, Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula and Ras Siyan, Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa...
Baraqish
Baraqish
Baraqish or Barakish is a town in northwestern Yemen. It is located at around . It was known to the Greeks and Romans as Athlula , from the ancient Sabaean YTL. A Roman army passed through it during the 20s B.C., under the command of Aelius Gallus. The tomb of a Roman cavalryman, P. Cornelius, has...
Cheikh Saïd
Cheikh Saïd
Cheikh Saïd is a rocky peninsula in Yemen, near the island of Perim on the Bab-el-Mandeb at the entrance to the Red Sea. In 1868 it was purchased from the local ruler, Sheikh Ali Tabet Ahmed, by Bazin et Rabaud, a private company based in Marseilles in France, which wanted to use it as a base for...
Dathina
Dathina
Dathina , the Dathina Sheikhdom , or sometimes the Dathina Confederation, was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. It was abolished in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen...
Dhamar, Yemen
Dhamar, Yemen
Dhamar is a city in southwestern Yemen. It is located at , at an elevation of around 2400 metres.-Overview:Dhamar is situated 100 km to the south of Sana'a, north of Ibb, and west of Al-Beidha, 2700 m above sea level. Its name “Dhamar” goes back to the king of Sheba and Dou-Reddan at 15-35 AD...
Emirate of Beihan
Emirate of Beihan
Beihan or Bayhan , officially the Emirate of Beihan , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate and the Federation of South Arabia...
Emirate of Dhala
Emirate of Dhala
Dhala , Amiri , or the Emirate of Dhala was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia...
Fadhli Sultanate
Fadhli Sultanate
Fadhli , or the Fadhli Sultanate , was an independent sultanate on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula from at least the 15th century until 1967...
Federation of Arab Emirates of the South
Federation of Arab Emirates of the South
The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen. The Federation of six states was inaugurated in the British Colony of Aden on 11 February 1959. It subsequently added nine states and, on 4 April...
Furah
Furah
Furah is a coastal town on Kamaran Island, Yemen. It is located at around ....
Gulf of Aden
Gulf of Aden
The Gulf of Aden is located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen, on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa. In the northwest, it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, which is about 20 miles wide....
Hadhramaut Governorate
Hadhramaut Governorate
Hadhramaut or Hadramawt is a governorate of Yemen. Lying within the large historical region of Hadhramaut, it is the country's largest governorate.-Overview:...
Hadiboh
Hadiboh
Hadibu , formerly known as Tamrida, is a coastal town in northern Socotra , not far from the mount Jabal al-Jahir. It is the central and largest city of the small archipelago, with a population 8,545 as of 2004 census of population. Hadibu is also the capital of the larger eastern district of...
Hajjah
Hajjah
Hajjah is the capital city of Hajjah Governorate in northwestern Yemen. It is located 127 kilometres northwest of Sana'a, at an elevation of about 1800 metres. As of 2003, the Hajjah City District had a population of 53,887 inhabitants....
Hajjah Governorate
Hajjah Governorate
Hajjah is a governorate of Yemen. Bordered by the Red Sea, it has its capital in Hajjah.-Overview:Claims have been made that this region along with Sa'dah and Al Hudaydah legally belong to Saudi Arabia due to irregularities in the Treaty of Taif and the fact that it was once part of Asir that was...
Hanish Islands
Hanish Islands
The Hanish Islands are an island group in the Red Sea. Most of them are a part of Yemen, but before 1998–1999 they were claimed by Eritrea as well. After a long trial with an international court under the guidance of Dr...
Haushabi Sultanate
Haushabi Sultanate
Haushabi , or the Haushabi Sultanate , was one of the original "Nine Cantons" that signed protection agreements with Great Britain in the late 19th century and became part of the British Aden Protectorate. The state later joined the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the...
Havilah
Havilah
Havilah is in several books of the Bible referring to both land and people.The story of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2:11: "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads...
Himyar
Himyar
The Himyarite Kingdom or Himyar , historically referred to as the Homerite Kingdom by the Greeks and the Romans, was a kingdom in ancient Yemen. Established in 110 BC, it took as its capital the modern day city of Sana'a after the ancient city of Zafar...
Ibb
Ibb
Ibb is a city in Yemen, the capital of Ibb Governorate, situated on a mountain ridge, surrounded by fertile land and is known as "The Green City". It is located about 73 miles north-east of Mocha. Ibb was governed by a semi-autonomous emir until 1944, when the emirate was abolished...
Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb
Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb
Jabal an-Nabi Shu'ayb is a mountain located in Sana'a Governorate, Yemen. It is the highest mountain of the country and the highest mountain in the Arabian Peninsula...
Jibla
Jibla
Jibla is a town in southwestern Yemen, close to Ibb. It is located at around , at the elevation of around 2,200 meters. The town and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List due to its purported universal cultural value....
Kamaran
Kamaran
Kamaran Island is the largest Yemen-controlled island in the Red Sea. The island is long and wide and is strategically located at the southern end of the Red Sea....
Kathiri
Kathiri
Kathiri was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now officially considered part of Yemen and the Dhofar region of Oman....
Kawkaban
Kawkaban
Kawkaban is a town midway between Sana'a and Al-Mahweet. It is of particular historical importance for the Zaidiyyah, having been a stronghold for Yemeni kings due to its advantageous position. It is situated atop a plateau at 2750m above sea level. The sole entrance to the town is via a single...
Lahej Sultanate
Lahej Sultanate
Lahej , the Sultanate of Lahej , or, sometimes, the Abdali Sultanate , was a Zaydi state in Yemen. Its capital was Lahij.-History:...
Lahij
Lahij
Lahij or Lahej is a city and an area located between Ta'izz and Aden in Yemen. From the 18th to the 20th century, its rulers were of the Al-Abdali family who with Al-Sallami, Al-Ramada, Al-Sindi and al-Aqrabi, claims relation to Ahl al-Bayt...
Lahij Governorate
Lahij Governorate
Lahij is a governorate of Yemen.-Districts:*Al Hawtah District*Al Had District*Al Madaribah Wa Al Arah District*Al Maflahy District*Al Maqatirah District*Al Milah District*Al Musaymir District*Al Qabbaytah District*Habil Jabr District...
Lower Aulaqi
Lower Aulaqi
Lower Aulaqi , or the Lower Aulaqi Sultanate , was a state in the Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia...
Lower Yafa
Lower Yafa
Lower Yafa, Lower Yafa'i , or the Sultanate of Lower Yafa , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. Within its area were the sheikhdoms of Al Saadi, Yaher, Kalad, Thi Nakheb, and Yazidi. It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the...
Lower Yemen
Lower Yemen
Lower Yemen and Upper Yemen are traditional regions of the north western highland mountains of Yemen. Northern Highlands and Southern Highlands are terms more commonly used presently. The Sumara Mountains just south of the town of Yarim denote the boundaries of the two regions. These two...
Ma'rib
Ma'rib
Ma'rib or Marib is the capital town of the Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen and was the capital of the Sabaean kingdom, which some scholars believe to be the ancient Sheba of biblical fame. It is located at , approximately 120 kilometers east of Yemen's modern capital, Sana'a...
Ma'rib Governorate
Ma'rib Governorate
Ma'rib is a governorate of Yemen. Its centre, Ma'rib, was established after the discovery of oil deposits in 1984. Ma'rib's population in 2004 was 241,619.-Districts:*Al Abdiyah District*Al Jubah District*Bidbadah District*Harib District...
Maflahi
Maflahi
Maflahi, Muflahi , or the Muflahi Sheikhdom , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. It was originally one of the five sheikhdoms of Upper Yafa but joined the Federation of South Arabia and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia, as a separate state...
Mahra Sultanate
Mahra Sultanate
The Mahra Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra or sometimes the Mahra Sultanate of Ghayda and Socotra was a sultanate that included both the historical region of Mahra and the Indian Ocean island of Socotra in what is now eastern Yemen...
Makram
Makram
Makram is a coastal town on Kamaran Island in the Red Sea. It is situated in the Al Hudaydah Governorate of Yemen, at ....
Mukayras
Mukayras
Mukayras is a town in Abyan Governorate, Yemen. It is located at around at an elevation of about 2170 m.It was one of the South Yemen Protectorates under British rule 1839-1967...
Nishtun
Nishtun
Nishtun is a coastal town in southeastern Yemen. It is located at around ....
North Yemen
North Yemen
North Yemen is a term currently used to designate the Yemen Arab Republic , its predecessor, the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen , and their predecessors that exercised sovereignty over the territory that is now the north-western part of the state of Yemen in southern Arabia.Neither state ever...
Protectorate of South Arabia
Protectorate of South Arabia
The Protectorate of South Arabia was a grouping of states under treaties of protection with Britain. The Protectorate was designated on 18 January 1963 as consisting of those areas of the Aden Protectorate that did not join the Federation of South Arabia, and it broadly, but not exactly,...
Qishn
Qishn
Qishn is a coastal town in Al Mahrah Governorate, southern Yemen. It is located at around . Its population is estimated at more than 80000. It has a landing strip, which is currently not in use....
Qu'aiti
Qu'aiti
Qu'aiti , officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut Qu'aiti , officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut Qu'aiti , officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut (Arabic: (الدولة القعيطية الحضرمية) or the Qu'aiti Sultanate of Shihr and Mukalla (Arabic:سلطنة الشحر والمكلاا ), was a sultanate in the...
Radfan
Radfan
Radfan or the Radfan Hills is a region of the Republic of Yemen. In the 1960s, the area was part of a British protectorate of Dhala and was the site of intense fighting during the Aden Emergency...
Ras Menheli
Ras Menheli
Ras Menheli is a point in Yemen on the coast of Bab-el-Mandeb close to the island of Perim....
Raymah Governorate
Raymah Governorate
Raymah is a governorate of Yemen.It was established in January 2004.-Districts:*Al Jabin District*Al Jafariyah District*As Salafiyah District*Bilad At Ta'am District*Kusmah District*Mazhar District...
Sa'dah
Sa'dah
Sa`dah is the capital city of Saada Governorate in north-western Yemen. It is located at , at an elevation of about 1,800 meters. Known in antiquity as Karna, its population in 2004 was estimated at 51,870.- External links :*...
Sa'dah Governorate
Sa'dah Governorate
Saada is a governorate located in the north of Yemen on the border with Saudi Arabia. As of February 2004, the province had a population of 695,033 inhabitants, around 3.67% of the total population of Yemen and have an area of 11,375 square kilometers.. It is one of the most inaccessible areas of...
San‘a’ Governorate
Sayfaf
Sayfaf
Sayfaf is a coastal town in Kamaran Island, Yemen. It is located at around ....
Seiyun
Seiyun
Say'un is a town in the Hadhramaut region of Yemen. Postage stamps from the former Aden Protectorate sultanate of Kathiri are sometimes inscribed "Kathiri State of Seiyun." As of 2006 the population was 75,700....
Shabwah Governorate
Shabwah Governorate
Shabwah is a governorate of Yemen. Its main town is Ataq.-Districts:*Ain District*Al Talh District*Ar Rawdah District*Arma District*As Said District*Ataq District*Bayhan District*Dhar District*Habban District*Hatib District...
Shaib
Shaib
Shaib , or the Sheikhdom of Shaib , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its last sheikh, Yahya Mohamed Al-Kholaqi Al-Saqladi, died in Jeddah Saudi Arabia July 2001...
Shibam
Shibam
Shibam is a town in Yemen with about 7,000 inhabitants. The first known inscription about the city dates from the 3rd century AD...
Shuqrah
Shuqrah
Shuqrah is a coastal town in southern Yemen. It was the capital of the Fadhli Sultanate until the capital moved to Zinjibar in 1962, although the royal residence remained in Shuqrah....
Steroh
Steroh
Steroh is a coastal town in southern Socotra, Yemen. It is located at around ....
Subeihi Sultanate
Subeihi Sultanate
Subeihi or Subayhi , or the Subeihi Sultanate , was a state in the western Aden Protectorate. It was one of the original "Nine Cantons" that signed protection agreements with Great Britain in the late 19th century. It later came under the sway of the Sultanate of Lahej and is now part of the...
Ta'izz
Ta'izz
Ta'izz , or Taiz, is a city in the Yemeni Highlands, near the famous Mocha port on the Red Sea, lying at an elevation of about 1,400 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Ta'izz Governorate...
Tarim, Yemen
Tarim, Yemen
Tarim is a historic town situated in the Hadhramaut Valley of South Yemen, South Arabia. Tarim is widely acknowledged as the theological, juridical, and academic center of the Hadhramaut Valley. An important locus of Islamic learning, it is estimated to contain the highest concentration of...
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Thamud, Yemen
Thamud, Yemen
Thamud is a town in northeastern Yemen. It is located at around ....
Tihamah
Tihamah
Tihamah or Tihama is a narrow coastal region of Arabia on the Red Sea. It is currently divided between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. In a broad sense, Tihamah refers to the entire coastline from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb Strait but it more often refers only to its southern half, starting...
Timna
Timna
Timna is an ancient city in Yemen, the capital of the Qataban kingdom; it is distinct from a city in Southern Israel that shares the same name....
United Arab States
United Arab States
The United Arab States was a short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic and North Yemen from 1958–1961.The United Arab Republic was a sovereign state formed by the union of Egypt and Syria in 1958...
Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom
Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom
The Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia...
Upper Aulaqi Sultanate
Upper Aulaqi Sultanate
The Upper Aulaqi Sultanate was a state in the British Aden Protectorate and the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Nisab.-History:...
Upper Yafa
Upper Yafa
Upper Yafa, Upper Yafa'i , or the Sultanate of Upper Yafa , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate and the Protectorate of South Arabia. It was ruled by the Harharah dynasty and its capital was Mahjaba...
Upper Yemen
Upper Yemen
Upper Yemen and Lower Yemen are traditional regions of the north western highland mountains of Yemen. Northern Highlands and Southern Highlands are terms more commonly used presently. The Sumara Mountains just south of the town of Yarim denote the boundaries of the two regions. These two...
Wahidi Balhaf
Wahidi Balhaf
Wahidi Balhaf , or the Wahidi Sultanate of Balhaf , was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate. It was also part of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia when it was known simply as Wahidi...
Wahidi Bir Ali
Wahidi Bir Ali
Wahidi Bir Ali , or the Wahidi Wilayah of Bir Ali , was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate and the Protectorate of South Arabia. Its capital was Bir Ali on the Gulf of Aden coast...
Wahidi Haban
Wahidi Haban
Wahidi Haban , or the Wahidi Sultanate of Haban , was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate. Its capital was Habban. The last sultan, Husayn ibn Abd Allah Al Wahidi, was deposed and the state was abolished in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen...
Yarim
Yarim
-Geography:It lies in the heart of the Yemen Highlands, on an upland plateau dominated by the massif of nearby Mount Sumarah, which rises to about 10,000 feet above sea level.-History:...
Zabid
Zabid
Zabid is a town with an urban population of around 23,000 persons on Yemen's western coastal plain. The town, named after Wadi Zabid, the wadi to its south, is one of the oldest towns in Yemen...
Zafar
Zafar
-Given name:* Zafar Mehmood Mughal, ASC, Chairman Executive Punjab Bar Council* Zafar Bangash, Pakistani writer* Zafar Iqbal, various people* Zafar Ali Khan, Pakistani writer* Zafar Ali Naqvi, Indian politician* Zafar Saifullah, Indian politician...
Zinjibar
Zinjibar
Zinjibar is a port and coastal town in south-central Yemen, the capital of Zinjibar District and the Abyan Governorate. It is located next to the Wadi Bana in the Abyan Delta. From 1962 to 1967, it was the administrative capital of the Fadhli Sultanate, although the royal residence remained at...
Zuqar Island
Zuqar Island
Zuqar Island is an island belonging to Yemen in the Red Sea. It lies between the coasts of mainland Yemen and Eritrea, near the Bab-el-Mandeb straits which connect the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden...

Yemeni society

Demographics of Yemen
Demographics of Yemen
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Yemen, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.-Population:The U.S...
Yemen Scouts and Guides Association

Chaush
Chaush
The Chaush are a Sunni Muslim community of Hadhrami Arab descent found in the Deccan region of India. An extension of these Arab descendants are also found in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro. It is a Turkish word used particularly during the Ottoman era of the Balkans, 'Chaush' or Čauši were...

- Yemeni community in Hyderabad

Government of Yemen

Assembly of Representatives of Yemen
Assembly of Representatives of Yemen
The Assembly of Representatives is the legislature of Yemen. The Assembly has 301 members, elected for a six year term in single-seat constituencies.-See also:* List of Speakers of the Assembly of Representatives of Yemen...
Foreign relations of Yemen
Foreign relations of Yemen
The foreign relations of Yemen are the relationships and policies that Yemen maintains with other countries. Yemen is a member of the United Nations, the Arab League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Yemen participates in the nonaligned movement. The Republic of Yemen accepted...
Human rights in Yemen
Human rights in Yemen
The situation for Human Rights in Yemen is rather poor. The security forces have been responsible for torture, inhumane treatment and even extrajudicial executions. But according to the Embassy of Yemen, in recent years there has been some improvement, with the government signing several...
List of Kings of Yemen
President of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
President of Yemen Arab Republic
President of Yemen Arab Republic
The President of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of state of that country in what is now northern Yemen. There were 6 Presidents of North Yemen.-List of Head of State of the Yemen Arab Republic :...
List of Presidents of Yemen
Prime Minister of South Yemen
Prime Minister of Yemen
Prime Minister of Yemen
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Yemen is the head of government in that country. The current Prime Minister, Ali Muhammad Mujawar, has held the position since 7 April 2007. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President...
Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
The Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of government of that country in what is now northern Yemen. The Prime Minister was appointed by the President...
Wahiba Fara’a
Wahiba Fara’a
Wahiba Fara’a is a Yemeni politician and a former Minister in the Cabinet of Yemen. She was appointed head of the newly formed Ministry of State for Human Rights in 2001, becoming the country's first female minister.-References:...
Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of Yemen

Foreign relations of Yemen

Governorates of Yemen

Governorates of Yemen
Governorates of Yemen
|Yemen is divided into 21 governorates :The governorates are subdivided into 333 districts , which are subdivided into 2,210 sub-districts, and then into 38,284 villages ....
Abyan Governorate
Ad Dali' Governorate
Ad Dali' Governorate
Ad Dali is a governorate of Yemen.-Districts:*Ad Dhale'e District*Al Azariq District*Al Husha District*Al Hussein District*Ash Shu'ayb District*Damt District*Jahaf District*Juban District*Qa'atabah District...
'Adan Governorate
'Adan Governorate
Adan is a governorate of Yemen, including the city of Aden. At the 2004 census it had a population of 589,419. The ancient capital, the port city of Crater, was located here....
Al Bayda' Governorate
Al Bayda' Governorate
Al Bayda , also spelt Al-Baidhah or Beida, is one of the 19 governorates of Yemen. It is located near the centre of the country, around the town of Al Bayda'.Its population, according to the 2004 Yemeni census, was 571,778....
Al Hudaydah Governorate
Al Hudaydah Governorate
Al Hudaydah is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Al Hudaydah.This governorate borders the Red Sea and is part of the narrow Tihamah region...
Al Jawf Governorate
Al Jawf Governorate
Al Jawf is a governorate of Yemen.-Districts:*Al Ghayl District*Al Hazm District*Al Humaydat District*Al Khalq District*Al Maslub District*Al Matammah District*Al Maton District*Az Zahir District*Bart Al Anan District*Khabb wa ash Sha'af District...
Al Mahrah Governorate
Al Mahrah Governorate
Al Mahrah or Mahra is a governorate of Yemen in the southern Arabian Peninsula. Situated in the area of the former Mahra Sultanate, its capital is Al Ghaydah....
Al Mahwit Governorate
Al Mahwit Governorate
Al Mahwit is one of the governorates of Yemen.-Districts:*Al Khabt District*Al Mahwait District*Al Mahwait City District*Ar Rujum District*At Tawilah District*Bani Sa'd District*Hufash District*Milhan District*Shibam Kawkaban District...
'Amran Governorate
'Amran Governorate
Amran is a governorate of Yemen.-Districts:*Al Ashah District*Al Madan District*Al Qaflah District*Amran District*As Sawd District*As Sudah District*Bani Suraim District*Dhi Bin District*Habur Zulaymah District*Harf Sufyan District...
Dhamar Governorate
Dhamar Governorate
Dhamar , also spelt Thamar, is a governorate of Yemen. It is located to the south and southeast of Sana'a Governorate, to the north of Ibb Governorate, to the east of Al Hudaydah Governorate and to the northwest of Al Bayda' Governorate in the central highlands of Yemen...
Hadhramaut Governorate
Hadhramaut Governorate
Hadhramaut or Hadramawt is a governorate of Yemen. Lying within the large historical region of Hadhramaut, it is the country's largest governorate.-Overview:...
Hajjah Governorate
Hajjah Governorate
Hajjah is a governorate of Yemen. Bordered by the Red Sea, it has its capital in Hajjah.-Overview:Claims have been made that this region along with Sa'dah and Al Hudaydah legally belong to Saudi Arabia due to irregularities in the Treaty of Taif and the fact that it was once part of Asir that was...
Ibb Governorate
Ibb Governorate
Ibb is a governorate of Yemen. It is located in the inland south of the country with Ta'izz Governorate to the southwest, Ad Dali' Governorate to the southeast, Dhamar Governorate to the north, and short borders with Al Bayda' Governorate to the east and Al Hudaydah Governorate to the west...
Lahij Governorate
Lahij Governorate
Lahij is a governorate of Yemen.-Districts:*Al Hawtah District*Al Had District*Al Madaribah Wa Al Arah District*Al Maflahy District*Al Maqatirah District*Al Milah District*Al Musaymir District*Al Qabbaytah District*Habil Jabr District...
Ma'rib Governorate
Ma'rib Governorate
Ma'rib is a governorate of Yemen. Its centre, Ma'rib, was established after the discovery of oil deposits in 1984. Ma'rib's population in 2004 was 241,619.-Districts:*Al Abdiyah District*Al Jubah District*Bidbadah District*Harib District...
Raymah Governorate
Raymah Governorate
Raymah is a governorate of Yemen.It was established in January 2004.-Districts:*Al Jabin District*Al Jafariyah District*As Salafiyah District*Bilad At Ta'am District*Kusmah District*Mazhar District...
Sa'dah Governorate
Sa'dah Governorate
Saada is a governorate located in the north of Yemen on the border with Saudi Arabia. As of February 2004, the province had a population of 695,033 inhabitants, around 3.67% of the total population of Yemen and have an area of 11,375 square kilometers.. It is one of the most inaccessible areas of...
San‘a’
San‘a’ Governorate
Shabwah Governorate
Shabwah Governorate
Shabwah is a governorate of Yemen. Its main town is Ataq.-Districts:*Ain District*Al Talh District*Ar Rawdah District*Arma District*As Said District*Ataq District*Bayhan District*Dhar District*Habban District*Hatib District...
Ta'izz Governorate
Ta'izz Governorate
Ta'izz is a governorate of Yemen. The governorate's capital is Ta'izz, which is the third largest city in Yemen. Other major towns include Al Sawa, Juha and the famous coffee port of Mocha. It has a total population of just over three million and an area of 10,677km².For such a small area, Ta'izz...
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History of Yemen

History of Yemen
History of Yemen
Yemen is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its relatively fertile land and adequate rainfall in a moister climate helped sustain a stable population, a feature recognized by the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, who described Yemen as Eudaimon Arabia meaning "fortunate...
Aden (colony)
Aden (colony)
The Colony of Aden or Aden Colony was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963, and consisted of the port city of Aden and its immediate surroundings The Colony of Aden or Aden Colony was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963, and consisted of the port city of Aden and its immediate...
Aden Protectorate
Aden Protectorate
The Aden Protectorate was a British protectorate in southern Arabia which evolved in the hinterland of Aden following the acquisition of that port by Britain in 1839 as an anti-piracy station, and it continued until the 1960s. For administrative purposes it was divided into the Western...
Adnan
Adnan
Adnan is the traditional ancestor of the Adnani Arabs of northern, central and western Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtani of Southern and south eastern Arabia who descend from Qahtan.-Origin:...
Al-Hurra Al-Malika
Al-Hurra Al-Malika
al-Sayyida al-Hurrat-ul Malika Asma Bint Shibab al-Sulayhiyya was Muslim Malika of Yemen. The title means "The Most Noble Lady who is independent, the woman sovereign who bows to no superior authority, Queen". She was married to Sultan Ali al-Sulahi, who entrusted much of the management of the...
Alawi (sheikhdom)
Alawi (sheikhdom)
Alawi , or the Alawi Sheikhdom , was one of the original "Nine Cantons" that signed protection agreements with Great Britain in the late 19th century and became part of the British Aden Protectorate. It was later in the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of...
Ancient history of Yemen
Ancient history of Yemen
The ancient history of Yemen is especially important because Yemen is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East...
Aqrabi
Aqrabi
Aqrabi , or the Aqrabi Sheikhdom , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Bir Ahmad.-History:...
Audhali
Audhali
Audhali , or the Audhali Sultanate , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia, in 1963. Its capital was Zarah...
Cheikh Saïd
Cheikh Saïd
Cheikh Saïd is a rocky peninsula in Yemen, near the island of Perim on the Bab-el-Mandeb at the entrance to the Red Sea. In 1868 it was purchased from the local ruler, Sheikh Ali Tabet Ahmed, by Bazin et Rabaud, a private company based in Marseilles in France, which wanted to use it as a base for...
Coat of arms of Yemen
Coat of arms of Yemen
The national emblem of Yemen depicts a golden eagle with a scroll between its claws. On the scroll is written the name of the country in Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية or Al-Jumhuriyyah Al-Yamaniyah . The chest of the eagle contains a shield that depicts a coffee plant and the Marib Dam, that are...
Corrective Revolution
Dathina
Dathina
Dathina , the Dathina Sheikhdom , or sometimes the Dathina Confederation, was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. It was abolished in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen...
Democratic Republic of Yemen
Democratic Republic of Yemen
The Democratic Republic of Yemen was declared in May 1994. The DRY, with its capital in Aden, was led by President Ali Salim al-Beidh and Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas and represented a response to the weakening position of the South in the Yemeni civil war of 1994...
Dhu Nuwas
Dhu Nuwas
Yūsuf Dhū Nuwas, was the last king of the Himyarite kingdom of Yemen and a convert to Judaism....
Emirate of Beihan
Emirate of Beihan
Beihan or Bayhan , officially the Emirate of Beihan , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate and the Federation of South Arabia...
Emirate of Dhala
Emirate of Dhala
Dhala , Amiri , or the Emirate of Dhala was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia...
Fadhli Sultanate
Fadhli Sultanate
Fadhli , or the Fadhli Sultanate , was an independent sultanate on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula from at least the 15th century until 1967...
Federation of Arab Emirates of the South
Federation of Arab Emirates of the South
The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen. The Federation of six states was inaugurated in the British Colony of Aden on 11 February 1959. It subsequently added nine states and, on 4 April...
Federation of South Arabia
Federation of South Arabia
The Federation of South Arabia was an organization of states under British protection in what would become South Yemen. It was formed on 4 April 1962 from the 15 protected states of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South. On 18 January 1963 it was merged with the crown colony of Aden...
Flag of Yemen
Flag of Yemen
The flag of Yemen was adopted on May 22, 1990, the day that North Yemen and South Yemen were unified. The flag is essentially the Arab Liberation Flag of 1952, introduced after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 in which Arab nationalism was a dominant theme...
Greater Yemen
Greater Yemen
Greater Yemen is a geographic term denoting the present territory of the Republic of Yemen as well as the Saudi regions of 'Asir, Najran Province, Jizan Province, the adjacent islands in the Red Sea and the adjacent parts of Tihamah and sometimes the Omani province of Dhofar.Greater Yemen is also...
Hadhramaut
Hadhramaut
Hadhramaut, Hadhramout, Hadramawt or Ḥaḍramūt is the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate encompassing a historical region of the south Arabian Peninsula along the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea, extending eastwards from Yemen to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman...
Haushabi Sultanate
Haushabi Sultanate
Haushabi , or the Haushabi Sultanate , was one of the original "Nine Cantons" that signed protection agreements with Great Britain in the late 19th century and became part of the British Aden Protectorate. The state later joined the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the...
Himyar
Himyar
The Himyarite Kingdom or Himyar , historically referred to as the Homerite Kingdom by the Greeks and the Romans, was a kingdom in ancient Yemen. Established in 110 BC, it took as its capital the modern day city of Sana'a after the ancient city of Zafar...
Islamic history of Yemen
Islamic history of Yemen
Islam came to Yemen around 630 during Muhammad's lifetime and the rule of the Persian governor Badhan. Thereafter, Yemen was ruled as part of Arab-Islamic caliphates, and Yemen became a province in the Islamic empire....
Kathiri
Kathiri
Kathiri was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now officially considered part of Yemen and the Dhofar region of Oman....
Kingdom of Awsan
Kingdom of Awsan
The ancient Kingdom of Awsan in South Arabia , with a capital at Hagar Yahirr in the wadi Markha, to the south of the wadi Bayhan, is now marked by a tell or artificial mound, which is locally named Hagar Asfal. Once it was one of the most important small kingdoms of South Arabia...
Lahej Sultanate
Lahej Sultanate
Lahej , the Sultanate of Lahej , or, sometimes, the Abdali Sultanate , was a Zaydi state in Yemen. Its capital was Lahij.-History:...
List of Kings of Yemen
Lower Aulaqi
Lower Aulaqi
Lower Aulaqi , or the Lower Aulaqi Sultanate , was a state in the Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia...
Lower Yafa
Lower Yafa
Lower Yafa, Lower Yafa'i , or the Sultanate of Lower Yafa , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. Within its area were the sheikhdoms of Al Saadi, Yaher, Kalad, Thi Nakheb, and Yazidi. It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the...
Maflahi
Maflahi
Maflahi, Muflahi , or the Muflahi Sheikhdom , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. It was originally one of the five sheikhdoms of Upper Yafa but joined the Federation of South Arabia and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia, as a separate state...
Mahra Sultanate
Mahra Sultanate
The Mahra Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra or sometimes the Mahra Sultanate of Ghayda and Socotra was a sultanate that included both the historical region of Mahra and the Indian Ocean island of Socotra in what is now eastern Yemen...
Marib Dam
Marib Dam
The Marib or Ma'rib or Ma'arib Dam blocks the Wadi Adhanah in the valley of Dhana in the Balaq Hills, Yemen. The current dam is close to the ruins of the Great Dam of Marib, dating from around the eighth century BC...
Maritime Jewel
Maritime Jewel
The Maritime Jewel is a double hull oil tanker built in 2000; its length is and its width is . It was known as the Limburg until 2003.-Bombing:...
Minaeans
Minaeans
The Minaeans from Arabic or were an ancient Arab group in Yemen during the 1st millennium BC. Their Minaean Kingdom was one of important kingdoms in ancient Yemen and Southwestern Arabia...
Modern history of Yemen
Modern history of Yemen
The modern history of Yemen began in 1918 when North Yemen gained independence from the Ottoman Empire. North Yemen became a republic in 1962, but it was not until 1967 that the British Empire, who had set up a protective area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew from what...
Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen , sometimes spelled Mutawakelite Kingdom of Yemen, also known as the Kingdom of Yemen or as North Yemen, was a country from 1918 to 1962 in the northern part of what is now Yemen...
North Yemen
North Yemen
North Yemen is a term currently used to designate the Yemen Arab Republic , its predecessor, the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen , and their predecessors that exercised sovereignty over the territory that is now the north-western part of the state of Yemen in southern Arabia.Neither state ever...
North Yemen Civil War
North Yemen Civil War
The North Yemen Civil War was fought in North Yemen between royalists of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and factions of the Yemen Arab Republic from 1962 to 1970. The war began with a coup d'état carried out by the republican leader, Abdullah as-Sallal, which dethroned the newly crowned Imam...
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen — also referred to as South Yemen, Democratic Yemen or Yemen — was a socialist republic in the present-day southern and eastern Provinces of Yemen...
Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
Aden is a city in Yemen. Aden's location made it a popular exchange port for mail passing between places around the Indian Ocean and Europe. Mail is known to exist from June 15, 1839, although a regular postmaster was not appointed until 1857....
President of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
President of Yemen Arab Republic
President of Yemen Arab Republic
The President of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of state of that country in what is now northern Yemen. There were 6 Presidents of North Yemen.-List of Head of State of the Yemen Arab Republic :...
List of Presidents of Yemen
Prime Minister of South Yemen
Prime Minister of Yemen
Prime Minister of Yemen
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Yemen is the head of government in that country. The current Prime Minister, Ali Muhammad Mujawar, has held the position since 7 April 2007. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President...
Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
The Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of government of that country in what is now northern Yemen. The Prime Minister was appointed by the President...
Protectorate of South Arabia
Protectorate of South Arabia
The Protectorate of South Arabia was a grouping of states under treaties of protection with Britain. The Protectorate was designated on 18 January 1963 as consisting of those areas of the Aden Protectorate that did not join the Federation of South Arabia, and it broadly, but not exactly,...
Qahtanite
Qahtanite
The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani refer to Semitic peoples either originating in, or claiming genealogical descent from the southern extent of the Arabian Peninsula, especially from Yemen....
Qu'aiti
Qu'aiti
Qu'aiti , officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut Qu'aiti , officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut Qu'aiti , officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut (Arabic: (الدولة القعيطية الحضرمية) or the Qu'aiti Sultanate of Shihr and Mukalla (Arabic:سلطنة الشحر والمكلاا ), was a sultanate in the...
Qutaibi
Qutaibi
Qutaibi or the Qutaibi Sheikhdom was a polity in the western Aden Protectorate. It was a dependency of the Emirate of Dhala and is now part of the Republic of Yemen...
Radfan
Radfan
Radfan or the Radfan Hills is a region of the Republic of Yemen. In the 1960s, the area was part of a British protectorate of Dhala and was the site of intense fighting during the Aden Emergency...
Sabaean language
Sabaean language
Sabaean , also known as Himyarite , was an Old South Arabian language spoken in Yemen from c. 1000 BC to the 6th century AD, by the Sabaeans; it was used as a written language by some other peoples of Ancient Yemen, including the Hashidites, Sirwahites, Humlanites, Ghaymanites, Himyarites,...
Sabaeans
Sabaeans
The Sabaeans or Sabeans were an ancient people speaking an Old South Arabian language who lived in what is today Yemen, in the south west of the Arabian Peninsula.Some scholars suggest a link between the Sabaeans and the Biblical land of Sheba....
Sanaa massacre
Sanaa massacre
The Sana'a school shooting was a school shooting that occurred in Sana'a, Yemen, on March 30, 1997. 48-year-old Mohammad Ahman al-Nazari – who had fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan – began his rampage at Tala'i Private School in the Asbahi township. Armed with an illegally obtained...
September 15th, 2006 Yemen attacks
September 15th, 2006 Yemen attacks
The September 15 2006 Yemen attacks were two attempted bombings of oil facilities in Yemen, carried out by suspected Islamic militants on September 15, 2006. All four attackers and one security guard died during the attacks.- Background :...
Shaib
Shaib
Shaib , or the Sheikhdom of Shaib , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its last sheikh, Yahya Mohamed Al-Kholaqi Al-Saqladi, died in Jeddah Saudi Arabia July 2001...
South Arabian alphabet
South Arabian alphabet
The ancient Yemeni alphabet branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC. It was used for writing the Yemeni Old South Arabic languages of the Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramautic, Minaean, Himyarite, and proto-Ge'ez in Dʿmt...
South Yemen
South Yemeni dinar
South Yemeni dinar
The dinar was the currency of South Arabia and then South Yemen between 1965 and 1990. It was subdivided into 1000 fils . After Yemen's monetary unification on 1 July 1990, it was one of the two official currencies used in Yemen Republic until 11 June 1996.-History:The dinar was introduced in 1965...
Subeihi Sultanate
Subeihi Sultanate
Subeihi or Subayhi , or the Subeihi Sultanate , was a state in the western Aden Protectorate. It was one of the original "Nine Cantons" that signed protection agreements with Great Britain in the late 19th century. It later came under the sway of the Sultanate of Lahej and is now part of the...
Terrorism in Yemen
Timeline of Yemen history
Timeline of Yemen history
* 30th-25th century BC Ancient Arab tribes move North and South. Qahtan and A'ad settle South Arabia. The Akkadians and Amalek settle the North.* 23rd century BC - According to some legends, the Arabs of the South unite under the leadership of Qahtan....
Treaty of Jeddah
USS Cole bombing
USS Cole bombing
The USS Cole Bombing, or the USS Cole Incident, was a suicide attack against the United States Navy destroyer on October 12, 2000 while it was harbored and refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen American sailors were killed, and 39 were injured...
United Nations Yemen Observation Mission
United Nations Yemen Observation Mission
The UN Yemen Observation Mission was established in 1963.Yemen entered into a state of civil war in 1962. Yemen had joined Egypt in 1958, and then in 1962, separated again, sparking the conflict....
Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom
Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom
The Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia...
Upper Aulaqi Sultanate
Upper Aulaqi Sultanate
The Upper Aulaqi Sultanate was a state in the British Aden Protectorate and the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Nisab.-History:...
Upper Yafa
Upper Yafa
Upper Yafa, Upper Yafa'i , or the Sultanate of Upper Yafa , was a state in the British Aden Protectorate and the Protectorate of South Arabia. It was ruled by the Harharah dynasty and its capital was Mahjaba...
Wahidi Balhaf
Wahidi Balhaf
Wahidi Balhaf , or the Wahidi Sultanate of Balhaf , was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate. It was also part of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia when it was known simply as Wahidi...
Wahidi Bir Ali
Wahidi Bir Ali
Wahidi Bir Ali , or the Wahidi Wilayah of Bir Ali , was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate and the Protectorate of South Arabia. Its capital was Bir Ali on the Gulf of Aden coast...
Wahidi Haban
Wahidi Haban
Wahidi Haban , or the Wahidi Sultanate of Haban , was one of several Wahidi states in the British Aden Protectorate. Its capital was Habban. The last sultan, Husayn ibn Abd Allah Al Wahidi, was deposed and the state was abolished in 1967 upon the founding of the People's Republic of South Yemen...
Yemen Arab Republic
Yemen Arab Republic
The Yemen Arab Republic , also known as North Yemen or Yemen , was a country from 1962 to 1990 in the western part of what is now Yemen...
Yemeni buqsha
Yemeni buqsha
A buqsha or bogache is a former monetary unit of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic. 40 buqshas make up one Yemeni rial....
Yemeni unification
Ziyadid dynasty
Ziyadid dynasty
The Ziyadid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty that ruled western Yemen from 819 until 1018 from the capital city of Zabid. The dynasty was formed by the Abbasid Caliph, al-Ma'mun, to manage 'Alid Shi'a influence...

Wars involving Yemen

Saudi–Yemeni War
1948 Arab–Israeli War
North Yemen Civil War
North Yemen Civil War
The North Yemen Civil War was fought in North Yemen between royalists of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and factions of the Yemen Arab Republic from 1962 to 1970. The war began with a coup d'état carried out by the republican leader, Abdullah as-Sallal, which dethroned the newly crowned Imam...
Hanish Islands conflict

Newspapers published in Yemen

Al-Ayyam (Yemen)
Al-Ayyam (Yemen)
Al-Ayyam was a newspaper published in the Republic of Yemen from 1958 to 2009. Based in Aden, it was the most widely read newspaper in southern Yemen, when it was one of seven newspapers closed in May 2009, with the government accusing the paper of supporting separatism. Al-Ayyam's compound in...
Shabab Yemeni
Shabab Yemeni
Shabab Yemeni is an independent, non-partisan youth newsletter that was established in May 2004 as a response to the needs of Yemeni students living abroad.-Goals:* Increase awareness among Yemeni youth and share knowledge and experiences...
Yemen Observer
Yemen Observer
The Yemen Observer is an English-language, triweekly newspaper published in the Republic of Yemen. It was founded in 1996 by Faris Sanabani, aide and press secretary of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Its editors include Editor-in-Chief, Mohammed al-Kibsi...
Yemen Times
Yemen Times
The Yemen Times is unified Yemen's first and most widely-read independent English-language newspaper. The paper is published twice-weekly and has its own printing press, advertising associates and news service....

Yemeni people

List of Yemenis
Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd
Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd
-Mentioned in the "No-hearing hearings" study:According to the study entitled, No-hearing hearings, Al Rahman Abd's Tribunal was an instance where a detainee had his requests for exculpatory evidence arbitrarily refused, in violation of the orders that established the Tribunals:Al Rahman Abd wanted...
Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa
Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa
Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ibn Nusayr was the first governor of Al-Andalus, in modern-day Spain and Portugal. He was the son of Musa ibn Nusayr, the governor of Ifriqiya...
Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim
Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim
Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Hakim's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 686....
Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser
Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser
Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 115.American intelligence analysts estimates that he was born in 1980, in Ma'rib, Yemen....
Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal
Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi
Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi
Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi is a citizen of Yemen, currently held without charges in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimate he was born in 1972, in Ta'izz, Yemen....
Faruq Ali Ahmed
Faruq Ali Ahmed
-Mentioned in the "No-hearing hearings" study:According to the study entitled, No-hearing hearings, Faruq Ali Ahmed's Personal Representative recorded his or her objections to the Tribunal's conclusion:-Administrative Review Board hearing:...
Fayad Yahya Ahmed
Fayad Yahya Ahmed
Fayad Yahya Ahmed al Rami is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba for seven and a half years.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 683....
Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi
Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi
Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Joint Task Force Guantanamo estimate that he was born in 1975, in Sanaa, Yemen....
Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi
Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi
Born on July 1, 1979 in Sana'a, Yemen, Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi was a prisoner held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Al Asadi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 198....
Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani
Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani
Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's.The Department of Defense estimate he was born in 1979, in Al Reef, Yemen....
Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul
Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani
Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani
Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defence estimate that he was born in 1980, in Tabokh, Saudi Arabia....
Adil Said Al Haj Obeid Al Busayss
Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj
Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj
Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu al Haf is a Yemen citizen who was held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba until December 19, 2009.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 256....
Al Hamdani
Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal
Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal
Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense lists his place of birth as unknown and his date of birth as January 30, 1968....
Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammed Al Yafi
Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammed Al Yafi
Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammed Al Yafi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1970, in Lawdar, Yemen....
Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid
Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid
Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid is a Yemeni citizen held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is: ISN 31....
Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi
Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi
Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi is a Yemeni who was captured and transferred to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimates that he was born in 1984 in Sana'a, Yemen....
Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri
Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri
Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan
Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan
Hani Abdual Muslih Al Shulan was a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan was transferred to Yemen on June 18, 2007....
Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi
Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi
Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi
Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimate that Al Warafi was born in 1974, in Ta'iz, Yemen....
Abdullah Al-Baradouni
Abdullah Al-Baradouni
Abdullah Al-Baradouni was a Yemeni writer and poet. He had published 12 poetry books as well as six other books on such topics as politics, folklore, and literature. He is considered Yemen's most famous poet....
Muhammed al-Darbi
Muhammed al-Darbi
Muhammed al-Darbi is a Yemeni held in extrajudicial detention by the CIA, in one of their black sites.According to the Washington Post al-Darbi was captured as a result of extended interrogation techniques used in secret interrogation centres....
Muhammad al-Gharsi
Muhammad al-Gharsi
Muhammad al-Gharsi is one of the most famous modern Yemeni poets. He is a friend of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the current President of Yemen and former President of the Yemen Arab Republic . Before the unification of Yemen, al-Gharsi was viewed as "an eloquent spokesman for the republican...
Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi
Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi
Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei...
Al-Khayzuran
Al-Khayzuran
Al-Khayzuran bint Atta was the wife of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mahdi and mother of both Caliphs Al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid, the most famous of the Abbasids. She was from Jorash, Yemen....
Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi
Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi
Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi , aka Akrama, became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts...
Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi
Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi
Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei...
Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah
Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah
Bashir Nasir Ali al Marwalah is a Yemeni, who was captured in Pakistan, on September 11, 2002, and transferred to extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba....
Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi
Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi
Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei...
Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso is also known as Fahd Al-Quso, Abu Huthaifah, Abu Huthaifah Al-Yemeni, Abu Al-Bara', Abu Hathayfah Al-Adani, Abu Huthaifah Al-Adani, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Awlaqi, Huthaifah Al-Yemeni, or Abu Huthaifah Al-Abu Al-Bara. Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso is a known terrorist...
Fawaz al-Rabeiee
Fawaz al-Rabeiee
Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeiee was a al-Qaeda terrorist, sentenced to death in 2004 by a Yemeni court for his part in the 2002 attack on the French tanker Limburg...
Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri
Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri
as-Sayyid AbdulRahman Ali AlJifri is a prominent Yemeni opposition leader. He was the Vice-President of the Presidency Council of the short-lived Government of the Democratic Republic of Yemen that was established on May 21, 1994...
Abdullah Al-Rimi
Abdullah Al-Rimi
Abdullah Al-Rimi became wanted in 2006, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, "sought in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States." He was one of 23 people who escaped from Yemen prison in San'a, along with the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei...
Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri
Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri
Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri , , became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts...
Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari
Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari
Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari , , became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts...
Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli
Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli
Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei...
Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli
Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli
Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei...
Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari
Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari
Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari , , became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts...
Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani
Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani
Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani , , became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts...
Naji Al Ashwal
Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh
Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh
Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh is a citizen of Yemen currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 836....
Azd
Azd
The Azd or Al Azd, are an Arabian tribe. They were a branch of the Kahlan tribe, which was one of the two branches of Qahtan the other being Himyar.In the ancient times, they inhabited Ma'rib, the capital city of the Sabaean Kingdom in modern-day Yemen...
Banu Lakhm
Banu Lakhm
Banu Lakhm is a large Arab tribe tracing their lineage backto Qahtan, who among many achievements, created anArab kingdom in Al-Hira, near modern Kufa, Iraq...
Jalal Salam Bin Amer
Jalal Salam Bin Amer
Jalal Salam Bin Amer is an Yemeni citizen, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The US Department of Defense estimate he was born in 1973 in Al Muquala, Yemen....
Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash
Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash
Hassan Mohammed Ali bin Attash is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that bin Attash was born in 1985, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia....
Ramzi bin al-Shibh
Ghassanids
Ghassanids
The Ghassanids were a group of South Arabian Christian tribes that emigrated in the early 3rd century from Yemen to Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Holy Land....
Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi
Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi
Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi is a citizen of Yemen, confined for more than eight years in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States military....
Salem Ahmed Hadi
Salem Ahmed Hadi
Salem Ahmed Hadi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that Hadi was born on January 15, 1976, in Hadramaut, Yemen....
Salim Ahmed Hamdan
Salim Ahmed Hamdan
Salim Ahmed Hamdan is a Yemeni man, captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. He admits to being Osama bin Laden's personal driver claiming he needed the $200 monthly salary that came with the job....
Hamdani
Hamdani
' was an Arab Muslim geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, from the tribe of Banu Hamadan, western 'Amran/Yemen. He was one of the best representatives of Islamic culture during the last effective years of the Abbasid caliphate....
Naseem Hamed
Naseem Hamed
Naseem Hamed is an English former professional boxer.He is the former WBO, WBC, IBF, & Lineal featherweight champion, and European bantamweight champion....
Harbi al-Himyari
Harbi al-Himyari
Harbi al-Himyari , was an Arab scholar from Yemen, who lived between the 7th and 8th century CE. He is famous as the teacher of the Islamic alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan. According to Holmyard nothing else is known about him.-References:...
Abu Ali al-Harithi
Hashid
Hashid
The Hashid tribal federation is the second largest tribal federation in Yemen. Member tribes of the Hashid Confederation are found primarily in the mountains in the North and Northwest of the country. It was headed by Sheikh Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar until his death on December 29, 2007 and is...
Emad Abdalla Hassan
Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif
Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif
Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Bader Ben Hirsi
Bader Ben Hirsi
Al-Bader BenYahya al-Hirsi, commonly known as Bader Ben Hirsi, is a British playwright and director of Yemeni ancestry.-Early life and education:...
Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris
Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris
Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate Idris was born in 1961, in Hathramuut, Yemen....
Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris
Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris
Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo estimate he was born in 1979, in Rada, Yemen....
Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail
Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail
-Transcript:Ismail chose to participate in his Tribunal.On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a four summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal....
Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby
Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby
Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Karama Khamis
Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan
Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan
Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....
Rizwan Khan
Rizwan Khan
Rizwan "Riz" Khan is a British television news reporter and interviewer who until April 2011 hosted his own eponymous television show on Al Jazeera English. He first rose to prominence while working for the BBC and CNN....
Lakhmids
Lakhmids
The Lakhmids , Banu Lakhm , Muntherids , were a group of Arab Christians who lived in Southern Iraq, and made al-Hirah their capital in 266. Poets described it as a Paradise on earth, an Arab Poet described the city's pleasant climate and beauty "One day in al-Hirah is better than a year of...
Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef
Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef
Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 202. American intelligence analysts report that Bin Atef was born in 1980, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.As of...
Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i
Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i
Alawi denied some of the allegations, and claimed that they contained contradictions. He admitted to being an employee of Al Haramayn, but not its director...
Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi
Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi
Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 28....
Muhhammad Said Bin Salem
Muhhammad Said Bin Salem
Muhhammad Said Bin Salem is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His detainee ID number is 251....
Musa bin Nusair
Musa bin Nusair
Musa bin Nusayr al-Balawi was a balawi who served as a governor and general under the Umayad caliph Al-Walid I. He had ruled over the Muslim provinces of North Africa , and directed the islamic opening of the Visigothic kingdom in Hispania....
Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir
Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir
-Transcript:Nashir chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a three page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal....
Nethanel ben Isaiah
Nethanel ben Isaiah
Nethanel ben Isaiah was a Yemenite Jewish rabbi, Biblical commentator and poet of the fourteenth century...
Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash
Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash
Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash , , became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts...
Qahtanite
Qahtanite
The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani refer to Semitic peoples either originating in, or claiming genealogical descent from the southern extent of the Arabian Peninsula, especially from Yemen....
Khaled Qasim
Khaled Qasim
Khaled Qasim is a Yemeni citizen who was captured in Afghanistan and detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts reports that he was born on January 21, 1977, in Themeir, Yemen....
Rabiah ibn Mudhar
Rabiah ibn Mudhar
Rabiah ibn Mudhar was a Jewish king of Himayar, in what is now Yemen. He was overthrown in the early 6th century by king Kaleb of Axum, and forced to flee....
Sabaeans
Sabaeans
The Sabaeans or Sabeans were an ancient people speaking an Old South Arabian language who lived in what is today Yemen, in the south west of the Arabian Peninsula.Some scholars suggest a link between the Sabaeans and the Biblical land of Sheba....
Said Muhammed Salih Hatim
Said Muhammed Salih Hatim
Said Muhammed Salih Hatim is a citizen of Yemen, unlawfully detained for more than eight years in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimate he was born in 1976, in Ibb, Yemen....
Sharifa Fatima
Sharifa Fatima
Sharifa Fatima was a Zaydi chief in 15th century Yemen, and conquered San'a. She was the daughter of Imam al-Zayel al-Nasir Li Din Allah.-References:**...
Shawki Awad Balzuhair
Shawki Awad Balzuhair
Shawki Awad Balzuhair is a citizen of Yemen, held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that Balzuhair was born on July 24, 1981, in Hadramout, Yemen and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 838.As of August 18, 2011, Shawki Awad...
Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
Abdul Majeed al-Zindani has been described by Daniel Golden of the Wall Street Journal as "a charismatic Yemeni academic and politician." and by CNN as "a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard"...
Riyadh Shikawi
Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman
Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman
Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States...
Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada
Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada
Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Ayoob Tarish
Ayoob Tarish
Ayoob Tarish Absi is a famous Yemeni singer and melodist from the area of Al-Aboos in the Ta'izz Governorate. Tarish composed United Republic, the national anthem of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the Republic of Yemen following the Yemenite reunification.-External links:* to...
Toufiq Saber Muhammad Al Marwa’i
Waddah al-Yaman
Waddah al-Yaman
Waddah al-Yaman , born Abdul Rahman bin Isma’il al-Khawlani , was an Arab poet.-Biography:...
Haitham al-Yemeni
Haitham al-Yemeni
Haitham al-Yemeni was an al Qaeda explosives expert from Yemen. He was killed in North Waziristan, northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, in early March 2005 in a drone attack by an unmanned CIA-operated RQ-1 Predator aircraft...
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Walid Said Bin Said Zaid
Walid Said Bin Said Zaid
-Transcript:Walid Said Bin Said Zaid's Combatant Status Review Tribunal convened on October 26, 2004.He did not attend his Tribunal, but he did prepare a written statement.Other captive's written statements were released on March 3, 2006....
Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi
Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi
Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi a Yemeni, became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts...

Yemeni extrajudicial prisoners of the United States

Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi
Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal
Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi
Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi
Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi is a citizen of Yemen, currently held without charges in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimate he was born in 1972, in Ta'izz, Yemen....
Ali Abdullah Ahmed
Ali Abdullah Ahmed
Ali Abdullah Ahmed also known as Salah Ahmed al-Salami was a citizen of Yemen who died in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....
Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed
Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed
Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed is a Yemeni currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1977, in Debab, Yemen....
Faruq Ali Ahmed
Faruq Ali Ahmed
-Mentioned in the "No-hearing hearings" study:According to the study entitled, No-hearing hearings, Faruq Ali Ahmed's Personal Representative recorded his or her objections to the Tribunal's conclusion:-Administrative Review Board hearing:...
Fayad Yahya Ahmed
Fayad Yahya Ahmed
Fayad Yahya Ahmed al Rami is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba for seven and a half years.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 683....
Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi
Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi
Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Joint Task Force Guantanamo estimate that he was born in 1975, in Sanaa, Yemen....
Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi
Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi
Born on July 1, 1979 in Sana'a, Yemen, Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi was a prisoner held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Al Asadi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 198....
Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani
Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani
Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's.The Department of Defense estimate he was born in 1979, in Al Reef, Yemen....
Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani
Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani
Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defence estimate that he was born in 1980, in Tabokh, Saudi Arabia....
Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah
Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah
Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo estimate he was born in 1962, in Hay al-Turbawi Ta'iz, Yemen....
Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj
Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj
Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu al Haf is a Yemen citizen who was held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba until December 19, 2009.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 256....
Mohammed Abdullah Al Hamiri
Mohammed Abdullah Al Hamiri
Mohammed Abdullah Al Hamiri, a citizen of Yemen, is currently being held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate Al Hamiri was born in 1982, in Hudaydah, Yemen....
Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi
Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi
Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi was a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Al Hanashi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 78....
Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal
Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal
Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense lists his place of birth as unknown and his date of birth as January 30, 1968....
Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi
Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi
Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi
-Press comments:On July 12, 2006 the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees. Al Khalaqi was one of the detainees profiled...
Ha Il Aziz Ahmed Al Maythali
Ha Il Aziz Ahmed Al Maythali
Hail Aziz Ahmad al Maythal is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1977, in Zemar, Yemen....
Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani
Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani
Musab Omar Ali al Madoonee is a citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate Al Madoonee was born in 1980, Al-Hudida, Yemen....
Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid
Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid
Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid is a Yemeni citizen held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is: ISN 31....
Nasir Najr Nasir Balud Al Mutayri
Nasir Najr Nasir Balud Al Mutayri
-Nasir Najr Nasir Balud Al Mutayri v. United States of America:A writ of habeas corpus, Nasir Najr Nasir Balud Al Mutayri v. United States of America,was submitted on Nasir Najr Nasir Balud Al Mutayri's behalf.In response, on 24 September 2004...
Sulaiman Awath Sulaiman Bin Ageel Al Nahdi
Sulaiman Awath Sulaiman Bin Ageel Al Nahdi
Sulaiman Awath Sulaiman Bin Ageel Al Nahdi is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....
Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi
Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi
Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi is a citizen of Yemen currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo estimates that he was born in 1968, in Ta'iz, Yemen....
Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim Al Qurashi
Abdul Rahman Umir Al Qyati
Abdul Rahman Umir Al Qyati
Abdul Rahman Umir Al Qyati is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu Al Haj Al Radai
Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi
Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi
-Conclusion:Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's Tribunal based its conclusion on classified evidence.His Tribunal unanimously concluded that he had properly been deternmined to have been an "enemy combatant".-Ali Ahmed Mohammed Al Rezehi v. George W. Bush:...
Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi
Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi
Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi is a Yemeni who was captured and transferred to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimates that he was born in 1984 in Sana'a, Yemen....
Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri
Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri
Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Abdul Al Saleh
Abdul Al Saleh
Abdul Al Salehis a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 91....
Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani
Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani
Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Mustafa Abdul Qawi Abdul Aziz Al Shamyri
Mustafa Abdul Qawi Abdul Aziz Al Shamyri
Mustafa Abdul Qawi Abdul Aziz Al Shamyri is a citizen of Yemen held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that he was born on July 7, 1978, in Sana'a, Yemen and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 434.As of July 1, 2011, Mustafa Abdul...
Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan
Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan
Hani Abdual Muslih Al Shulan was a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan was transferred to Yemen on June 18, 2007....
Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays
Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays
- Transcript :Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.- Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays v. George W. Bush :A writ of habeas corpus was submitted onAli Husayn Abdullah Al Tays's behalf....
Hamoud Abdullah Hamoud Hassan Al Wady
Hamoud Abdullah Hamoud Hassan Al Wady
Hamoud Abdullah Hamoud Hassan Al Wady is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that he was born on September 5, 1965, in Sana'a, Yemen....
Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab
Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi
Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi
Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimate that Al Warafi was born in 1974, in Ta'iz, Yemen....
Mohammed Ali Salem Al Zarnuki
Mohammed Ali Salem Al Zarnuki
Mohammed Ali Salem Al Zarnuki is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....
Saleh Mohamed Al Zuba
Saleh Mohamed Al Zuba
The following primary factors favor release or transfer-2005 Status determination:Al Zuba's review convened on December 16, 2004—one of the first reviews to take place....
Muhammed al-Darbi
Muhammed al-Darbi
Muhammed al-Darbi is a Yemeni held in extrajudicial detention by the CIA, in one of their black sites.According to the Washington Post al-Darbi was captured as a result of extended interrogation techniques used in secret interrogation centres....
Sanad Ali Yislam Al-Kazimi
Sanad Ali Yislam Al-Kazimi
Sanad Yislam al Kazimi is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....
Abdulah Alhamiri
Abdulah Alhamiri
Abdulah Alhamiri is a citizen of United Arab Emirates and former student of Portland State University. He is best known for the time he spent in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba....
Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh
Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh
Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh is a citizen of Yemen currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 836....
Yasim Muhammed Basardah
Yasim Muhammed Basardah
Yasim Muhammed Basardah is a citizen of Yemen who was unlawfully detained in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 252...
Jalal Salam Bin Amer
Jalal Salam Bin Amer
Jalal Salam Bin Amer is an Yemeni citizen, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The US Department of Defense estimate he was born in 1973 in Al Muquala, Yemen....
Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash
Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash
Hassan Mohammed Ali bin Attash is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that bin Attash was born in 1985, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia....
Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir
Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir
Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Bwazir's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 440....
Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi
Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi
Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi is a citizen of Yemen, confined for more than eight years in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States military....
Salem Ahmed Hadi
Salem Ahmed Hadi
Salem Ahmed Hadi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that Hadi was born on January 15, 1976, in Hadramaut, Yemen....
Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel
Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel
Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel is a citizen of Yemen currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate that he was born in 1978, in Ta'iz, Yemen....
Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim
Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim
Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Hakim's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 686....
Salim Ahmed Hamdan
Salim Ahmed Hamdan
Salim Ahmed Hamdan is a Yemeni man, captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. He admits to being Osama bin Laden's personal driver claiming he needed the $200 monthly salary that came with the job....
Mohammed Mohammed Hassen
Mohammed Mohammed Hassen
Mohammed Mohammed Hassen or Odaini is a citizen of Yemen unlawfully detained from age eighteen to age twenty-six in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....
Said Muhammed Salih Hatim
Said Muhammed Salih Hatim
Said Muhammed Salih Hatim is a citizen of Yemen, unlawfully detained for more than eight years in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimate he was born in 1976, in Ibb, Yemen....
Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif
Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif
Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris
Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris
Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate Idris was born in 1961, in Hathramuut, Yemen....
Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris
Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris
Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo estimate he was born in 1979, in Rada, Yemen....
Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail
Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail
-Transcript:Ismail chose to participate in his Tribunal.On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a four summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal....
Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail
Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail
Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail is a Yemeni held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate he was born in 1979, in Ibb, Yemen....
Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby
Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby
Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan
Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan
Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....
Mohammed Nasir Yahya Khusruf
Mohammed Nasir Yahya Khusruf
Mohammed Nasir Yahya Khusruf is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman
Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman
Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi
Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi
Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....
Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef
Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef
Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 202. American intelligence analysts report that Bin Atef was born in 1980, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.As of...
Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i
Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i
Alawi denied some of the allegations, and claimed that they contained contradictions. He admitted to being an employee of Al Haramayn, but not its director...
Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud
Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud
Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo estimate Masud was born in 1978, in Sana'a, Saudi Arabia ....
Hussein Salem Mohammed
Hussein Salem Mohammed
Hussein Salem Mohammed is a citizen of Yemen, detained in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate that Mohammed was born in 1977, in Aden, Yemen....
Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel
Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel
-Transcript:The Department of Defense published a seven page summarized transcript from the unclassified session of his Tribunal.-Habeas corpus petition:A writ of habeas corpus was filed on Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel's behalf.-Military Commissions Act:...
Muhsin Muhammad Musheen Moqbill
Muhsin Muhammad Musheen Moqbill
-Administrative Review Board hearing:Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings...
Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi
Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi
Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 28....
Muhhammad Said Bin Salem
Muhhammad Said Bin Salem
Muhhammad Said Bin Salem is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His detainee ID number is 251....
Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser
Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser
Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 115.American intelligence analysts estimates that he was born in 1980, in Ma'rib, Yemen....
Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir
Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir
-Transcript:Nashir chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a three page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal....
Ahmed Abdul Qader
Ahmed Abdul Qader
Ahmed Abdul Qader is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimated that he was born in 1984, in Sana'a, Yemen and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 690...
Khaled Qasim
Khaled Qasim
Khaled Qasim is a Yemeni citizen who was captured in Afghanistan and detained in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts reports that he was born on January 21, 1977, in Themeir, Yemen....
Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii
Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii
Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 508....
Mohammed Ahmed Salam
Mohammed Ahmed Salam
Mohammed Ahmed Salam is a citizen of Yemen, currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States government....
Shawki Awad Balzuhair
Shawki Awad Balzuhair
Shawki Awad Balzuhair is a citizen of Yemen, held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that Balzuhair was born on July 24, 1981, in Hadramout, Yemen and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 838.As of August 18, 2011, Shawki Awad...
Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman
Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman
Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States...
Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar
Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar
-Transcript:Tahar chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.In response to a court order the Department of Defense was forced to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request and publish a sixteen page summarized transcript from Tahar's Tribunal.-Administrative Review Board...
Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada
Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada
Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Toufiq Saber Muhammad Al Marwa’i
Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman
Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman
-Statement:Uthman did not participate in the hearing of his CSRT. But he dictated a statement that answered each allegation, point by point.Uthman denied all knowledge of the Tarnak Farms, and any participation in, or training for military operations...
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....
Walid Said Bin Said Zaid
Walid Said Bin Said Zaid
-Transcript:Walid Said Bin Said Zaid's Combatant Status Review Tribunal convened on October 26, 2004.He did not attend his Tribunal, but he did prepare a written statement.Other captive's written statements were released on March 3, 2006....
Mohammed H. Al-Shatri

Yemenite Jews

Yemenite Jews
Yemenite Jews
Yemenite Jews are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen . Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of Yemen's Jewish population was transported to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet...
Yemenite Hebrew language
Yemenite Hebrew language
Yemenite Hebrew , also referred to as Temani Hebrew , is the pronunciation system for Biblical and liturgical Hebrew traditionally used by Yemenite Jews. Yemenite Jews brought their language to Israel through immigration. Their first organized immigration to the region began in 1882.It is believed...
Zohar Argov
Zohar Argov
Zohar Argov was a popular Israeli singer and a distinctive voice in the Mizrahi music scene.- Background :The most serious hurdle on the way to stardom was Argov's socioeconomic background. He was born in Rishon LeZion, and grew up in a poor family, the eldest of ten children...
Daklon
Daklon
Daklon is the nickname of an Israeli musical artist Yosef Levy. He was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv's Kerem Hateimanim neighborhood, as a son of Jewish-Yemeni immigrants from the Shar'ab region in Yemen....
Shoshana Damari
Dhu Nuwas
Dhu Nuwas
Yūsuf Dhū Nuwas, was the last king of the Himyarite kingdom of Yemen and a convert to Judaism....
Dor Daim
Dor Daim
The Dardaim or Dor daim , are adherents of the Dor Deah movement in Judaism. That movement was founded in 19th century Yemen by Rabbi Yiḥyah Qafiḥ, and had its own network of synagogues and schools.Its objects were:...
Zion Golan
Zion Golan
Zion Golan , also known as Tzion Golan, is an Israeli singer of Yemeni origin.-Background:Most of Golan's songs are in Yemeni Arabic. Many songs are from Yemen and are also sung by contemporary Yemeni singers. He also sings some songs in the ancient Yemeni dialect of Hebrew.-Personal life:Golan was...
Ofra Haza
Ofra Haza
Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer of Yemeni origin, an actress and international recording artist....
Jacob ben Nathanael
Jacob ben Nathanael
Jacob ben Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi was a rosh yeshiva of the Yemenite Jews in the second half of the 12th century CE. All that is known of him is that at the suggestion of Solomon ha-Kohen, a pupil of Maimonides, he wrote to the latter asking his advice in regard to a pseudo-Messiah who was leading...
Kerem Hatemanim
Kerem Hatemanim
Kerem HaTeimanim is a neighbourhood in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel. Its English translation is literally 'Vineyard of the Yemenites'. Its population is estimated at around 80,000, the majority of whom being Yemenite Jews. It is adjacent to the Carmel Market and Allenby Street, and is close to...
Kiryat Netafim
Kiryat Netafim
Kiryat Netafim is a communal village and an Israeli settlement located in the northern West Bank, about 30 km east of Tel Aviv, and under the administrative municipal government of the Shomron Regional Council....
Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)
Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)
Operation Magic Carpet is a widely-known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles , an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Israel. British and American transport planes made some 380 flights from Aden, in a secret operation that was...
Sanaani Hebrew language
Shalom Shabazi
Shalom Shabazi
Rabbi Shalom ben Yosef Shabbazi, also Abba Shalem Shabbezi or Salim Elshibzi was one of the greatest Jewish poets who lived in 17th century Yemen and now considered the 'Poet of Yemen'. Shabbazi was born in 1619 at Jewish Sharab, close to Ta'izz, and lived most of his life in Ta'izz from which he...
Shalom Sharabi
Shalom Sharabi
Sar Shalom Sharabi , also known as the Rashash, the Shemesh or Ribbi Shalom Mizraḥi deyedi`a Sharabi Sar Shalom Sharabi , also known as the Rashash, the Shemesh or Ribbi Shalom Mizraḥi deyedi`a Sharabi Sar Shalom Sharabi , also known as the Rashash, the Shemesh or Ribbi Shalom Mizraḥi deyedi`a...
Amnon Yitzhak
Amnon Yitzhak
Amnon Yitzhak , is an Orthodox Haredi Israeli.Harav Amnon Yitzhak is best known for his involvement in Orthodox Judaism outreach . He is involved in activities which are centered on helping Jews to become more religious or observant...
Yosef Qafih
Yosef Qafih
Yosef Qafih , widely known as Rabbi Kapach , was one of the foremost leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community, first in Yemen and later in Israel. He was the grandson of Rabbi Yihhyah Qafahh, also a prominent Yemenite leader and grandson of the founder of the Dor Deah movement in Yemen...

Assassinated Yemeni people

Yemeni politicians

Hamid al-Ahmar
Hamid al-Ahmar
Hamid al-Ahmar is a Yemeni multibillionaire businessman and politician. He is the general secretary of the Preparatory Committee of the National Dialogue for the JMP and a member of opposition party Yemeni Congregation for Reform, commonly known as Islah.He is a son of Abdullah ibn Husayn...
Abdulkarim Al-Arhabi
Abdulkarim Al-Arhabi
Abdulkarim Ismail Al-Arhabi is Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation in the Republic of Yemen. He is also the founder and Managing Director of the Social Fund for Development, which was established in 1997...
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini
Mohsin Ahmad Alaini served as the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic five times between 1967 and 1975.Mohsin Alaini was the first Foreign Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic. He consequently served four terms as Prime Minister under President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani...
Muhammad Said al-Attar
Muhammad Said al-Attar
Muhammad Said al-Attar was the acting Prime Minister of Yemen for five months in 1994.-External links:*...
Abdul Karim al-Iryani
Abdul Karim al-Iryani
Abdulkarim Ali Al-Eryani was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 29 April 1998 to 31 March 2001...
Hassan al-Amri
Hassan al-Amri
Hassan al-Amri He was born in a Yemeni village called Al-Amaryah—his surname indicates that—in Al-Hada District. He was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic for five terms between 1964 and 1971....
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to form present-day Yemen. Al-Attas served until 1994...
Ali Salim al-Baidh
Ali Salim al-Baidh
Ali Salim al-Beidh is a Yemeni politician who served as the General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party , the top political position in South Yemen, and as Vice-President of Yemen following Yemen's unification in 1990. He left the unification government in 1994, sparking the 1994 civil war in...
Abdul Qadir Bajamal
Abdul Qadir Bajamal
Abdul Qadir Bajamal was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 31 March 2001 until 7 April 2007. He is a member of the General People's Congress party and had been appointed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Before Bajamal's appointment as Prime Minister, he had served as Foreign Minister from 1998 to...
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 17 May 1997 to 29 April 1998.-References:...
Ahmad bin Yahya
Ahmad bin Yahya
Ahmad bin Yahya Hamidaddin was the penultimate king of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen from 1948 to 1962. His full name and title was H.M. al-Nasir-li-din Allah Ahmad bin al-Mutawakkil 'Ala Allah Yahya, Imam and Commander of the Faithful, and King of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of the Yemen...
Abdul Latif Dayfallah
Abdul Latif Dayfallah
Abdul Latif Dayfallah was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic for 26 April to 5 October 1963, under President Abdullah as-Sallal.Dayfallah also served as acting Prime Minister for nine days in January 1975.-References:...
Dhu Nuwas
Dhu Nuwas
Yūsuf Dhū Nuwas, was the last king of the Himyarite kingdom of Yemen and a convert to Judaism....
Mahmoud al-Gayifi
Mahmoud al-Gayifi
Hahmoud Al-Jaifi , was a Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic. He served from 29 April 1964 to 6 January 1965, under President Abdullah as-Sallal....
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani was a Yemeni politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997, under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Ghani was a member of the General People's Congress party....
Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri
Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri
Qadhi Abdullah al-Hajjri was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic from 30 December 1972 until 10 April 1974. He was appointed by President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani....
Muhammad Ali Haitham
Muhammad Ali Haitham
Muhammad Ali Haitham was a Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.Haitham was appointed Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1969. Salim Rubai Ali and the left wing of National Liberation Front took power in the country on June 22 of that year...
Abdul Rahman al-Iryani
Abdul Rahman al-Iryani
Abdul Rahman Yahya Al-Eryani was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from November 5, 1967 to June 13, 1974. Al-Eryani was a leader of the al-Ahrar opposition group, during the time of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen...
Abdullah Kurshumi
Abdullah Kurshumi
Abdullah Hussein al-Kurshumi was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic from 2 September 1969 until 5 February 1970. He served under President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani....
List of Kings of Yemen
Hassan Muhammad Makki
Hassan Muhammad Makki
Hassan Muhammad Makki was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic for four months in 1974. Makki was appointed by President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani. He was replaced shortly after the coup d'état that placed Ibrahim al-Hamdi in power as Chairman of the Military Command Council.-References:...
Muhammad al-Badr
Muhammad al-Badr
H.M. Muhammad Al-Badr was the last king of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and leader of the monarchist regions during the North Yemen Civil War...
Yasin Said Numan
Yasin Said Numan
Yasin Said Numan was the Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from February 1986 until the Yemeni unification in 1990, under Chairman Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, who preceded Numan as Prime Minister. Numan had previously been Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime...
Ahmad Muhammad Numan
Ahmad Muhammad Numan
Ahmad Muhammad Numan was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic twice.His first term was under President Abdullah al-Sallal. Numan served from 20 April to 6 July 1965....
Jarallah Omar
Jarallah Omar
Jarallah Omar al-Kuhali was a Yemeni politician, intellectual, and guerrilla fighter. He was trained in Islamic law, but in the 1960s he turned towards Marxism...
List of Presidents of Yemen
Prime Minister of South Yemen
Prime Minister of Yemen
Prime Minister of Yemen
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Yemen is the head of government in that country. The current Prime Minister, Ali Muhammad Mujawar, has held the position since 7 April 2007. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President...
Deputy Prime Minister of Yemen
Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
The Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of government of that country in what is now northern Yemen. The Prime Minister was appointed by the President...
AbdulWahab Raweh
AbdulWahab Raweh
Dr. Abdulwahab Abdo Raweh is an active Yemeni politician and was in the Yemeni cabinets . He has been in the cabinets of Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani , Faraj Said Bin Ghanem , Abdul Karim al-Iryani , and Abdul Qadir Bajamal .In 2006, he became the president of Aden University in Yemen until the 15th of...
Abdul Salam Sabrah
Abdul Salam Sabrah
Abdul Salam Sabrah was the acting Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic three times. His first term was in 1969, from 9 July to 29 July. His second and third terms were both in 1971, from 26 February to 3 May and from 5 September to 18 September. All three terms were under President Abdul...
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh is the first President of the Republic of Yemen. Saleh previously served as President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 1978 until 1990, at which time he assumed the office of chairman of the Presidential Council of a post-unification Yemen. He is the...
Abdullah as-Sallal
Abdullah as-Sallal
Abdullah al-Sallal was the leader of the North Yemeni Revolution of 1962. He served as the first President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 27 September 1962 to 5 November 1967....
Faysal al-Shaabi
Faysal al-Shaabi
Faysal Abd al-Latif al-Shaabi was the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of South Yemen from 6 April 1969 until the political coup that led to Salim Ali Rubai's ascendance to power on 22 June 1969. Al-Shaabi was appointed Prime Minister by President Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi....
Faisal Bin Shamlan
Faisal Bin Shamlan
Faisal Othman Bin Shamlan was a Yemeni intellectual, technocrat, political reformist and public figure. He was a Yemeni member of parliament who had held the post of Oil and Mineral Resources Minister in the post-unification government of Yemen...
Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
Abdul Majeed al-Zindani has been described by Daniel Golden of the Wall Street Journal as "a charismatic Yemeni academic and politician." and by CNN as "a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard"...
Wahiba Fara’a
Wahiba Fara’a
Wahiba Fara’a is a Yemeni politician and a former Minister in the Cabinet of Yemen. She was appointed head of the newly formed Ministry of State for Human Rights in 2001, becoming the country's first female minister.-References:...
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din
Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin became Imam of the Zaydis in 1904 and Imam of Yemen in 1918. His name in full was Amir al-Mumenin al-Mutawakkil 'Ala Allah Rab ul-Alamin Imam Yahya bin al-Mansur Bi'llah Muhammad Hamidaddin, Imam and Commander of the Faithful.Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin was born on Friday...

Assassinated Yemeni politicians

Ahmad al-Ghashmi
Ahmad al-Ghashmi
Ahmed bin Hussein al-Ghashmi was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 11 October 1977 until his death eight months later. Al-Ghashmi assumed power when his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, was assassinated. Ghashmi himself was assassinated later...
Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri
Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri
Qadhi Abdullah al-Hajjri was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic from 30 December 1972 until 10 April 1974. He was appointed by President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani....
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din
Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin became Imam of the Zaydis in 1904 and Imam of Yemen in 1918. His name in full was Amir al-Mumenin al-Mutawakkil 'Ala Allah Rab ul-Alamin Imam Yahya bin al-Mansur Bi'llah Muhammad Hamidaddin, Imam and Commander of the Faithful.Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin was born on Friday...

Presidents of North Yemen

President of Yemen Arab Republic
President of Yemen Arab Republic
The President of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of state of that country in what is now northern Yemen. There were 6 Presidents of North Yemen.-List of Head of State of the Yemen Arab Republic :...
Ahmad al-Ghashmi
Ahmad al-Ghashmi
Ahmed bin Hussein al-Ghashmi was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 11 October 1977 until his death eight months later. Al-Ghashmi assumed power when his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, was assassinated. Ghashmi himself was assassinated later...
Ibrahim al-Hamadi
Ibrahim al-Hamadi
Lieutenant-Colonel Ibrahim al-Hamdi was the leader of a military coup d'etat in Yemen Arab Republic that overthrew the regime of President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani on June 13, 1974. After the revolt, he was President of the Military Command Council that governed the country...
Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi
Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi
Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi was a Yemeni politician who served as the President of the Yemen Arab Republic briefly from 24 June to 18 July 1978...
Abdul Rahman al-Iryani
Abdul Rahman al-Iryani
Abdul Rahman Yahya Al-Eryani was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from November 5, 1967 to June 13, 1974. Al-Eryani was a leader of the al-Ahrar opposition group, during the time of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen...
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh is the first President of the Republic of Yemen. Saleh previously served as President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 1978 until 1990, at which time he assumed the office of chairman of the Presidential Council of a post-unification Yemen. He is the...
Abdullah as-Sallal
Abdullah as-Sallal
Abdullah al-Sallal was the leader of the North Yemeni Revolution of 1962. He served as the first President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 27 September 1962 to 5 November 1967....

Presidents of South Yemen

President of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to form present-day Yemen. Al-Attas served until 1994...
Abdul Fattah Ismail
Abdul Fattah Ismail
Abd al-Fattah Ismail Ali Al-Jawfi was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council, head of state of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, and founder, chief ideologue, and first leader of the Yemeni Socialist Party from 21 December 1978 to 21 April 1980.Born in July 1939 in...
Ali Nasir Muhammad
Ali Nasir Muhammad
Ali Nasir Muhammad Husani was twice president of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. He served as Chairman of the Presidential Council from 26 June 1978 - 27 December 1978. In April 1980, South Yemeni president Abdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile...
Salim Ali Rubai
Salim Ali Rubai
Salim Rubayyi Ali or Salim Rubayyi Ali (Salmin) or (1935–1978) Salim Rubayyi Ali (Salmin) or (1935–1978) (Arabic: ("سالم ربيع علي "سالمين ) was the head of state of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) from June 22, 1969 to his surrender and execution by firing squad on June...
Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi
Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi
Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi was the first President of the People's Republic of South Yemen. Al-Shaabi's National Liberation Front political organisation wrested control of the country from the British and won political supremacy over the opposition Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen...

Yemeni people stubs

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Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa
Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa
Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ibn Nusayr was the first governor of Al-Andalus, in modern-day Spain and Portugal. He was the son of Musa ibn Nusayr, the governor of Ifriqiya...
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani was a Yemeni politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997, under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Ghani was a member of the General People's Congress party....
Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi
Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi
Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi was a Yemeni politician who served as the President of the Yemen Arab Republic briefly from 24 June to 18 July 1978...
Abdul Karim al-Iryani
Abdul Karim al-Iryani
Abdulkarim Ali Al-Eryani was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 29 April 1998 to 31 March 2001...
Abdul Latif Dayfallah
Abdul Latif Dayfallah
Abdul Latif Dayfallah was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic for 26 April to 5 October 1963, under President Abdullah as-Sallal.Dayfallah also served as acting Prime Minister for nine days in January 1975.-References:...
Abdul Qadir Bajamal
Abdul Qadir Bajamal
Abdul Qadir Bajamal was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 31 March 2001 until 7 April 2007. He is a member of the General People's Congress party and had been appointed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Before Bajamal's appointment as Prime Minister, he had served as Foreign Minister from 1998 to...
Abdul Rahman al-Iryani
Abdul Rahman al-Iryani
Abdul Rahman Yahya Al-Eryani was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from November 5, 1967 to June 13, 1974. Al-Eryani was a leader of the al-Ahrar opposition group, during the time of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen...
Abdul Salam Sabrah
Abdul Salam Sabrah
Abdul Salam Sabrah was the acting Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic three times. His first term was in 1969, from 9 July to 29 July. His second and third terms were both in 1971, from 26 February to 3 May and from 5 September to 18 September. All three terms were under President Abdul...
AbdulWahab Raweh
AbdulWahab Raweh
Dr. Abdulwahab Abdo Raweh is an active Yemeni politician and was in the Yemeni cabinets . He has been in the cabinets of Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani , Faraj Said Bin Ghanem , Abdul Karim al-Iryani , and Abdul Qadir Bajamal .In 2006, he became the president of Aden University in Yemen until the 15th of...
Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf
Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf
Professor Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf was a Yemeni human-rights activist, economist, and journalist.Al-Saqqaf established the Yemen Times, unified Yemen’s first and most widely-read English-language independent newspaper, in 1991, and was the winner of the N.P.C.'s International Award for Freedom of the...
Abdullah Al-Baradouni
Abdullah Al-Baradouni
Abdullah Al-Baradouni was a Yemeni writer and poet. He had published 12 poetry books as well as six other books on such topics as politics, folklore, and literature. He is considered Yemen's most famous poet....
Abdullah Kurshumi
Abdullah Kurshumi
Abdullah Hussein al-Kurshumi was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic from 2 September 1969 until 5 February 1970. He served under President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani....
Abdullah as-Sallal
Abdullah as-Sallal
Abdullah al-Sallal was the leader of the North Yemeni Revolution of 1962. He served as the first President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 27 September 1962 to 5 November 1967....
Abu Ali al-Harithi
Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr
Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr
Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr Hamidaddin is the eldest son of the last ruling king of Yemen, Muhammad al-Badr, by his fourth wife. Yemen became a republic following the overthrow of the monarchy in 1962...
Ahmad Muhammad Numan
Ahmad Muhammad Numan
Ahmad Muhammad Numan was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic twice.His first term was under President Abdullah al-Sallal. Numan served from 20 April to 6 July 1965....
Ahmad al-Ghashmi
Ahmad al-Ghashmi
Ahmed bin Hussein al-Ghashmi was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 11 October 1977 until his death eight months later. Al-Ghashmi assumed power when his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, was assassinated. Ghashmi himself was assassinated later...
Al-Khayzuran
Al-Khayzuran
Al-Khayzuran bint Atta was the wife of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mahdi and mother of both Caliphs Al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid, the most famous of the Abbasids. She was from Jorash, Yemen....
Ali Nasir Muhammad
Ali Nasir Muhammad
Ali Nasir Muhammad Husani was twice president of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. He served as Chairman of the Presidential Council from 26 June 1978 - 27 December 1978. In April 1980, South Yemeni president Abdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile...
Ali Salim al-Baidh
Ali Salim al-Baidh
Ali Salim al-Beidh is a Yemeni politician who served as the General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party , the top political position in South Yemen, and as Vice-President of Yemen following Yemen's unification in 1990. He left the unification government in 1994, sparking the 1994 civil war in...
Amnon Yitzhak
Amnon Yitzhak
Amnon Yitzhak , is an Orthodox Haredi Israeli.Harav Amnon Yitzhak is best known for his involvement in Orthodox Judaism outreach . He is involved in activities which are centered on helping Jews to become more religious or observant...
Ayoob Tarish
Ayoob Tarish
Ayoob Tarish Absi is a famous Yemeni singer and melodist from the area of Al-Aboos in the Ta'izz Governorate. Tarish composed United Republic, the national anthem of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the Republic of Yemen following the Yemenite reunification.-External links:* to...
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem
Faraj Said Bin Ghanem was the Prime Minister of Yemen from 17 May 1997 to 29 April 1998.-References:...
Faysal al-Shaabi
Faysal al-Shaabi
Faysal Abd al-Latif al-Shaabi was the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of South Yemen from 6 April 1969 until the political coup that led to Salim Ali Rubai's ascendance to power on 22 June 1969. Al-Shaabi was appointed Prime Minister by President Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi....
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to form present-day Yemen. Al-Attas served until 1994...
Haitham al-Yemeni
Haitham al-Yemeni
Haitham al-Yemeni was an al Qaeda explosives expert from Yemen. He was killed in North Waziristan, northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, in early March 2005 in a drone attack by an unmanned CIA-operated RQ-1 Predator aircraft...
Harbi al-Himyari
Harbi al-Himyari
Harbi al-Himyari , was an Arab scholar from Yemen, who lived between the 7th and 8th century CE. He is famous as the teacher of the Islamic alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan. According to Holmyard nothing else is known about him.-References:...
Hassan Muhammad Makki
Hassan Muhammad Makki
Hassan Muhammad Makki was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic for four months in 1974. Makki was appointed by President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani. He was replaced shortly after the coup d'état that placed Ibrahim al-Hamdi in power as Chairman of the Military Command Council.-References:...
Hassan al-Amri
Hassan al-Amri
Hassan al-Amri He was born in a Yemeni village called Al-Amaryah—his surname indicates that—in Al-Hada District. He was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic for five terms between 1964 and 1971....
Ibrahim al-Hamadi
Ibrahim al-Hamadi
Lieutenant-Colonel Ibrahim al-Hamdi was the leader of a military coup d'etat in Yemen Arab Republic that overthrew the regime of President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani on June 13, 1974. After the revolt, he was President of the Military Command Council that governed the country...
Jacob ben Nathanael
Jacob ben Nathanael
Jacob ben Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi was a rosh yeshiva of the Yemenite Jews in the second half of the 12th century CE. All that is known of him is that at the suggestion of Solomon ha-Kohen, a pupil of Maimonides, he wrote to the latter asking his advice in regard to a pseudo-Messiah who was leading...
Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri
Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri
Qadhi Abdullah al-Hajjri was the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic from 30 December 1972 until 10 April 1974. He was appointed by President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani....
Karama Khamis
Mahmoud al-Gayifi
Mahmoud al-Gayifi
Hahmoud Al-Jaifi , was a Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic. He served from 29 April 1964 to 6 January 1965, under President Abdullah as-Sallal....
Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini
Mohsin Ahmad Alaini served as the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic five times between 1967 and 1975.Mohsin Alaini was the first Foreign Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic. He consequently served four terms as Prime Minister under President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani...
Muhammad Ali Haitham
Muhammad Ali Haitham
Muhammad Ali Haitham was a Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.Haitham was appointed Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1969. Salim Rubai Ali and the left wing of National Liberation Front took power in the country on June 22 of that year...
Muhammad Assad
Muhammad Assad
Mohammed Assad is a citizen of Yemen who, according to Amnesty International, was subjected to extraordinary rendition by the CIA, and held in the CIA's network of black sites -- secret interrogation centers....
Muhammad Said al-Attar
Muhammad Said al-Attar
Muhammad Said al-Attar was the acting Prime Minister of Yemen for five months in 1994.-External links:*...
Muhammad al-Gharsi
Muhammad al-Gharsi
Muhammad al-Gharsi is one of the most famous modern Yemeni poets. He is a friend of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the current President of Yemen and former President of the Yemen Arab Republic . Before the unification of Yemen, al-Gharsi was viewed as "an eloquent spokesman for the republican...
Naji Al Ashwal
Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi
Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi
Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi was the first President of the People's Republic of South Yemen. Al-Shaabi's National Liberation Front political organisation wrested control of the country from the British and won political supremacy over the opposition Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen...
Rabiah ibn Mudhar
Rabiah ibn Mudhar
Rabiah ibn Mudhar was a Jewish king of Himayar, in what is now Yemen. He was overthrown in the early 6th century by king Kaleb of Axum, and forced to flee....
Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq
Said Muhammed Salih Hatim
Said Muhammed Salih Hatim
Said Muhammed Salih Hatim is a citizen of Yemen, unlawfully detained for more than eight years in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.The Department of Defense estimate he was born in 1976, in Ibb, Yemen....
Salim Ali Rubai
Salim Ali Rubai
Salim Rubayyi Ali or Salim Rubayyi Ali (Salmin) or (1935–1978) Salim Rubayyi Ali (Salmin) or (1935–1978) (Arabic: ("سالم ربيع علي "سالمين ) was the head of state of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) from June 22, 1969 to his surrender and execution by firing squad on June...
Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel
Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel
-Transcript:The Department of Defense published a seven page summarized transcript from the unclassified session of his Tribunal.-Habeas corpus petition:A writ of habeas corpus was filed on Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel's behalf.-Military Commissions Act:...
Sharifa Fatima
Sharifa Fatima
Sharifa Fatima was a Zaydi chief in 15th century Yemen, and conquered San'a. She was the daughter of Imam al-Zayel al-Nasir Li Din Allah.-References:**...
Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
Abdul Majeed al-Zindani has been described by Daniel Golden of the Wall Street Journal as "a charismatic Yemeni academic and politician." and by CNN as "a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard"...
Wahiba Fara’a
Wahiba Fara’a
Wahiba Fara’a is a Yemeni politician and a former Minister in the Cabinet of Yemen. She was appointed head of the newly formed Ministry of State for Human Rights in 2001, becoming the country's first female minister.-References:...
Yasin Said Numan
Yasin Said Numan
Yasin Said Numan was the Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from February 1986 until the Yemeni unification in 1990, under Chairman Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, who preceded Numan as Prime Minister. Numan had previously been Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime...
Abdullah Muhammad AlKathiri

Politics of Yemen

Politics of Yemen
Politics of Yemen
Politics of Yemen takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, where the President of Yemen is the head of state, while the Prime Minister of Yemen is the head of government...
Assembly of Representatives of Yemen
Assembly of Representatives of Yemen
The Assembly of Representatives is the legislature of Yemen. The Assembly has 301 members, elected for a six year term in single-seat constituencies.-See also:* List of Speakers of the Assembly of Representatives of Yemen...
Coat of arms of Yemen
Coat of arms of Yemen
The national emblem of Yemen depicts a golden eagle with a scroll between its claws. On the scroll is written the name of the country in Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية or Al-Jumhuriyyah Al-Yamaniyah . The chest of the eagle contains a shield that depicts a coffee plant and the Marib Dam, that are...
Dofar Liberation Front
Dofar Liberation Front
Dofar Liberation Front was a communist front which was established to create a separatist state in Dhofar, the southern province of Oman, which shared a border with Yemen. The DLF was established by communist youth in Salalah in 1965 and fought a 10 year battle with the sultanate army supported...
Flag of Yemen
Flag of Yemen
The flag of Yemen was adopted on May 22, 1990, the day that North Yemen and South Yemen were unified. The flag is essentially the Arab Liberation Flag of 1952, introduced after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 in which Arab nationalism was a dominant theme...
Foreign relations of Yemen
Foreign relations of Yemen
The foreign relations of Yemen are the relationships and policies that Yemen maintains with other countries. Yemen is a member of the United Nations, the Arab League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Yemen participates in the nonaligned movement. The Republic of Yemen accepted...
Human rights in Yemen
Human rights in Yemen
The situation for Human Rights in Yemen is rather poor. The security forces have been responsible for torture, inhumane treatment and even extrajudicial executions. But according to the Embassy of Yemen, in recent years there has been some improvement, with the government signing several...
National anthem of Yemen
National anthem of Yemen
"United Republic" is the national anthem of Yemen. Written by Abdallah "al-Fadhool" Abdulwahab Noman and composed by Ayoob Tarish, it was formerly the anthem of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and became the anthem of all of Yemen when the two Yemens merged in 1990.-Lyrics:-English...
Steadfastness and Confrontation Front
Steadfastness and Confrontation Front
The Steadfastness and Confrontation Front was a political initiative by a number of Arab governments in the 1970s, related to the Arab-Israeli Conflict.- Background :...
Wahiba Fara’a
Wahiba Fara’a
Wahiba Fara’a is a Yemeni politician and a former Minister in the Cabinet of Yemen. She was appointed head of the newly formed Ministry of State for Human Rights in 2001, becoming the country's first female minister.-References:...

Political parties in Yemen

List of political parties in Yemen
Arab Socialist Rebirth Party (Yemen)
Arab Socialist Rebirth Party (Yemen)
The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region is the Yemeni regional organization of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party .Ba'athism in Yemen originates back to the 1950s. The party worked underground until 1990...
Baath Party
Baath Party
The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party was a political party mixing Arab nationalist and Arab socialist interests, opposed to Western imperialism, and calling for the renaissance or resurrection and unification of the Arab world into a single state. Ba'ath is also spelled Ba'th or Baath and means...
General People's Congress
General People's Congress
The General People's Congress is the ruling political party in Yemen.Was founded in August 24, 1982 in Sana'a, YemenAt the last legislative elections, 27 April 2003, the party won 58.0% of the popular vote and 238 out of 301 seats in the Assembly of Representatives of Yemen....
Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation
Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation
The Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is a Nasserist political party in Yemen.The party was founded in Taiz in 25 December 1965.The party was legalized in 1989....
Yemeni Congregation for Reform
Yemeni Socialist Party
Yemeni Socialist Party
The Yemeni Socialist Party is a political party in Yemen.It was the ruling party in South Yemen, the only Marxist Arab state, before unification in 1990...

Religion in Yemen

Islam in Yemen
Islam in Yemen
Islam in Yemen go back to about 630 when it was introduced into the region by Ali ibn Abu Talib when Prophet Muhammad was still alive. It was during this period that the mosques in al Janad and the great mosque in San'a were built. Yemenis are divided into two principal Islamic religious groups:...
Roman Catholicism in Yemen
Roman Catholicism in Yemen
The Roman Catholic Church in Yemen is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....

Football in Yemen

South Yemen national football team
South Yemen national football team
The South Yemen national football team was the national team of South Yemen between 1965 and 1989. It took part in the Asian Cup finals in 1976, losing 0-8 to Iran and 0-1 to Iraq...
Yemen Football Association
Yemen Football Association
The Yemen Football Association is the governing body of football in Yemen. It was founded in 1962, has been a member of the Asian Football Confederation since 1962 and of FIFA since 1980....
Yemen national football team
Yemen national football team
The Yemen national football team , is the national team of Yemen and is controlled by the Yemen Football Association.When the nation was split into North Yemen and South Yemen before 1990, two national teams existed. After unification, the Yemen national football team is considered the successor of...

Yemeni football clubs

Al Yarmuk Al Rawda
Al Yarmuk Al Rawda
Al Yarmuk Al Rawda is a Yemeni football club based in San‘a’, Yemen. The club was founded in 1978....
Al-Ahli (San'a')
Al-Ahli (San'a')
Al-Ahli Club San‘a’ is a Yemeni football club based in San‘a’, Yemen. The club was founded in 1952.Al-Ahli has a fierce rivalry with local rivals Al-Wahda which manifests itself in the Al-Wahda versus Al-Ahli matches, known as "the Summit"....
Al-Hilal (Al Hudaydah)
Al-Hilal (Al Hudaydah)
Al-Hilal Al-Sahili is a Yemeni football club based in Al Hudaydah, Yemen. The club was founded in 1971.-Achievements:*Yemeni League: 2*Yemeni President Cup: 2*Yemeni September 26 Cup: 1-Performance in AFC competitions:...
Hassan (Yemen football club)
Hassan (Yemen football club)
Hassan is a Yemeni football team currently playing in the Yemeni League, where they finished in 2nd place in the 2007 competition. It is based in Abyan. Their home stadium is Al-Shohada'a Stadium....
Al-Saqr
Al-Saqr
Al Saqr is an Yemeni football club based in Ta'izz, Yemen. The club was founded in 1969.-Performance in AFC competitions:*AFC Cup: 2 appearancesبطل الدوري اليمني 2006 , 2010بطل كأس الوحدة اليمنية 2008 , 2010بطل كأس السوبر اليمني 2010...
Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut
Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut
Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut is a Yemeni football team playing at the top level. It is based in Al-Mukalla. Their home stadium is Baradem Mukalla Stadium.-Performance in AFC competitions:*AFC Cup: 1 appearance*AFC Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance...
Al-Tilal
Al-Tilal
Al-Tilal Sports Club is an Yemeni football club based in Aden, Yemen. The club was founded in 1905.-Achievements:*Yemeni League: 2**1991, 2005*Yemeni Presidents Cup: 2**2007, 2010*Yemeni Naseem Cup: 2**2000, 2003...

Football venues in Yemen

Al-Shohada'a Stadium
Al-Shohada'a Stadium
Al-Shohada'a Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Abyan, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Hassan. The stadium holds 20,000 people....
Ali Muhesen Stadium
Ali Muhesen Stadium
Ali Muhesen Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Al-Ahli. The stadium holds 25,000 people....
Althawra Sports City Stadium
Althawra Sports City Stadium
Altawra Sports City Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 30,000 people and was opened in 1986. It is currently the home ground of the Yemen national football team....
Baradem Mukalla Stadium
Baradem Mukalla Stadium
Baradem Mukalla Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Al Mukalla, Yemen with grass surface. It is used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut. The stadium holds 20,000 people....
May 22 Stadium
May 22 Stadium
May 22 Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Aden, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Al-Tilal. The stadium holds 30,000 people. It will host the 20th Gulf Cup of Nations football competition on 22nd November 2010. The first match will be between...

Yemen at the Olympics

North Yemen at the 1984 Summer Olympics
North Yemen at the 1984 Summer Olympics
North Yemen, as the Yemen Arab Republic, competed for the first time at the Olympic Games at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.-Athletics:Men's 5,000 metres* Ali Al-Ghadi* Heat — 16:06.58...
North Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
North Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
North Yemen competed as the Yemen Arab Republic at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. After unification with South Yemen, the nation would return as Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-Athletics:Men's 10.000 metres* Abdulkarim Dawod...
South Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
South Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
South Yemen competed as the Yemen Democratic Republic at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. It was the only time that the nation would compete at the Olympic Games. After unification with North Yemen, the nation would later return as Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-References:*...
Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Yemen competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Before Yemenite reunification in 1990, North Yemen and South Yemen had competed as independent teams.-Athletics:Men's 800 metres*Anwar Mohamed...
Yemen at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Yemen at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Yemen competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-References:*...
Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics
-Athletics:Men's 400m* Basheer Al Khewani*# Round 1 - 49.72 Women's 200m* Hana Ali Saleh*# Round 1 - 30.36 -References:...
Yemen at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Yemen at the 2004 Summer Olympics
-Athletics:Men's 400 metres:* Saeed Al Adhreai**Heat: 49.39 s -Swimming:Men's 50 metre Freestyle:* Mohammed Saad**Heat: 29.97 s -Taekwondo:...

Transport and travel in Yemen

Transport in Yemen
Transport in Yemen
As a direct consequence of the country’s poverty, Yemen compares unfavorably with its Middle Eastern neighbors in terms of transportation infrastructure and communications network. Roads are generally poor, although several projects are planned to upgrade the system...
Visa requirements for Yemeni citizens
Visa requirements for Yemeni citizens
A Yemeni passport offers visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to the following countries.-Africa:-Americas:-Asia:-Europe:-Oceania:...

Airports in Yemen

Al Ghaydah Airport
Al Ghaydah Airport
Al Ghaydah Airport is an airport near Al Ghaydah, Yemen.-Airlines and destinations:...
Sana'a International Airport
Sana'a International Airport
Sana'a International Airport or El Rahaba Airport is an international airport located in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen. The runway is shared with a large military base with several fighter jets and transport aircraft of the Yemeni Air Force.-Airlines and destinations:*Note: All flights operate...
Ta'izz International Airport
Ta'izz International Airport
Ta'izz International Airport is a public airport located in Ta'izz, the capital of the Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen.-Airlines and destinations:-Accidents and incidents:...

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Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
The Aden-Abyan Islamic Army is an Islamist militant organization based in southern Yemen. The group was responsible for kidnapping of 16 foreign tourists in the December 1998 in Abyan. Yemeni government forces attacked place where the hostages were being held resulting in four of the hostages...
Al Yarmuk Al Rawda
Al Yarmuk Al Rawda
Al Yarmuk Al Rawda is a Yemeni football club based in San‘a’, Yemen. The club was founded in 1978....
Al-Ahli (San'a')
Al-Ahli (San'a')
Al-Ahli Club San‘a’ is a Yemeni football club based in San‘a’, Yemen. The club was founded in 1952.Al-Ahli has a fierce rivalry with local rivals Al-Wahda which manifests itself in the Al-Wahda versus Al-Ahli matches, known as "the Summit"....
Al-Hilal (Al Hudaydah)
Al-Hilal (Al Hudaydah)
Al-Hilal Al-Sahili is a Yemeni football club based in Al Hudaydah, Yemen. The club was founded in 1971.-Achievements:*Yemeni League: 2*Yemeni President Cup: 2*Yemeni September 26 Cup: 1-Performance in AFC competitions:...
Al-Saqr
Al-Saqr
Al Saqr is an Yemeni football club based in Ta'izz, Yemen. The club was founded in 1969.-Performance in AFC competitions:*AFC Cup: 2 appearancesبطل الدوري اليمني 2006 , 2010بطل كأس الوحدة اليمنية 2008 , 2010بطل كأس السوبر اليمني 2010...
Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut
Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut
Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut is a Yemeni football team playing at the top level. It is based in Al-Mukalla. Their home stadium is Baradem Mukalla Stadium.-Performance in AFC competitions:*AFC Cup: 1 appearance*AFC Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance...
Al-Shohada'a Stadium
Al-Shohada'a Stadium
Al-Shohada'a Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Abyan, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Hassan. The stadium holds 20,000 people....
Al-Tilal
Al-Tilal
Al-Tilal Sports Club is an Yemeni football club based in Aden, Yemen. The club was founded in 1905.-Achievements:*Yemeni League: 2**1991, 2005*Yemeni Presidents Cup: 2**2007, 2010*Yemeni Naseem Cup: 2**2000, 2003...
Ali Muhesen Stadium
Ali Muhesen Stadium
Ali Muhesen Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Al-Ahli. The stadium holds 25,000 people....
Althawra Sports City Stadium
Althawra Sports City Stadium
Altawra Sports City Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in San‘a’, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 30,000 people and was opened in 1986. It is currently the home ground of the Yemen national football team....
Arab Socialist Rebirth Party (Yemen)
Arab Socialist Rebirth Party (Yemen)
The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region is the Yemeni regional organization of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party .Ba'athism in Yemen originates back to the 1950s. The party worked underground until 1990...
Assembly of Representatives of Yemen
Assembly of Representatives of Yemen
The Assembly of Representatives is the legislature of Yemen. The Assembly has 301 members, elected for a six year term in single-seat constituencies.-See also:* List of Speakers of the Assembly of Representatives of Yemen...
Azd
Azd
The Azd or Al Azd, are an Arabian tribe. They were a branch of the Kahlan tribe, which was one of the two branches of Qahtan the other being Himyar.In the ancient times, they inhabited Ma'rib, the capital city of the Sabaean Kingdom in modern-day Yemen...
Baradem Mukalla Stadium
Baradem Mukalla Stadium
Baradem Mukalla Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Al Mukalla, Yemen with grass surface. It is used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut. The stadium holds 20,000 people....
Coat of arms of Yemen
Coat of arms of Yemen
The national emblem of Yemen depicts a golden eagle with a scroll between its claws. On the scroll is written the name of the country in Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية or Al-Jumhuriyyah Al-Yamaniyah . The chest of the eagle contains a shield that depicts a coffee plant and the Marib Dam, that are...
Communications in Yemen
Communications in Yemen
There are a number of systems of communications in Yemen.TeleYemen is the exclusive provider of international telecommunications for Yemen—fixed-line and wireless mobile companies, telex, and Internet services—and is one of the mobile-phone operators...
Culture of Yemen
Culture of Yemen
Due to its unique geographic location and ancient history, Yemen has acquired a very distinctive culture, clos to from its neighbors.-Music:The music of Yemen is primarily known abroad for a series of pan-Arab popular stars and the Yemenite Jews who became musical stars in Israel during the 20th...
Democratic Republic of Yemen
Democratic Republic of Yemen
The Democratic Republic of Yemen was declared in May 1994. The DRY, with its capital in Aden, was led by President Ali Salim al-Beidh and Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas and represented a response to the weakening position of the South in the Yemeni civil war of 1994...
Elections in Yemen
Elections in Yemen
Yemen elects on national level a head of state and a legislature. The president is elected for a seven year term by the people. The Assembly of Representatives of Yemen has 301 members, elected for a six year term in single-seat constituencies.Yemen is usually considered a dominant-party state...
Flag of Yemen
Flag of Yemen
The flag of Yemen was adopted on May 22, 1990, the day that North Yemen and South Yemen were unified. The flag is essentially the Arab Liberation Flag of 1952, introduced after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 in which Arab nationalism was a dominant theme...
General People's Congress
General People's Congress
The General People's Congress is the ruling political party in Yemen.Was founded in August 24, 1982 in Sana'a, YemenAt the last legislative elections, 27 April 2003, the party won 58.0% of the popular vote and 238 out of 301 seats in the Assembly of Representatives of Yemen....
Hashid
Hashid
The Hashid tribal federation is the second largest tribal federation in Yemen. Member tribes of the Hashid Confederation are found primarily in the mountains in the North and Northwest of the country. It was headed by Sheikh Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar until his death on December 29, 2007 and is...
Hassan (Yemen football club)
Hassan (Yemen football club)
Hassan is a Yemeni football team currently playing in the Yemeni League, where they finished in 2nd place in the 2007 competition. It is based in Abyan. Their home stadium is Al-Shohada'a Stadium....
Jachnun
Jachnun
Jachnun is a traditional Yemenite Jewish dish prepared from rolled dough which is baked on very low heat for about ten hours. The dough is rolled out thinly, brushed with shortening , and rolled up, similar to puff pastry. It turns a dark amber color and has a slightly sweet taste...
List of Kings of Yemen
List of Presidents of Yemen
List of newspapers in Yemen
Mandi (food)
Mandi (food)
Mandi is the traditional dish in Yemen native to Hadhramaut Province Yemen and many other Yemeni Cities known as Haneeth also.It is now very popular in the rest of the Arabian Peninsula and in many other Arab countries such as Egypt and Syria....
May 22 Stadium
May 22 Stadium
May 22 Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Aden, Yemen. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Al-Tilal. The stadium holds 30,000 people. It will host the 20th Gulf Cup of Nations football competition on 22nd November 2010. The first match will be between...
Mehri
Mehri language
Mehri language
Mehri or Mahri is a Modern South Arabian language, a branch of the greater Semitic language family, and is spoken by minority populations in isolated areas of the eastern part of Yemen and western Oman. It is a remnant of the ancient indigenous language group spoken in the southern Arabian...
Military of Yemen
Military of Yemen
The armed forces of Yemen include the Yemen Army , Navy , Yemen Air Force . A major reorganization of the armed forces continues. The unified air forces and air defenses are now under one command. The navy has concentration in Aden...
Minaeans
Minaeans
The Minaeans from Arabic or were an ancient Arab group in Yemen during the 1st millennium BC. Their Minaean Kingdom was one of important kingdoms in ancient Yemen and Southwestern Arabia...
Mudhaffar
Music of Yemen
Music of Yemen
Yemen is a country on the Arabian Peninsula, and the music of Yemen is primarily known abroad for a series of pan-Arab popular stars and the Yemenite Jews who became musical stars in Israel during the 20th century. In the Arab world, Yemen has long been a cultural capital.Yemen's national anthem is...
Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation
Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation
The Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is a Nasserist political party in Yemen.The party was founded in Taiz in 25 December 1965.The party was legalized in 1989....
North Yemen Civil War
North Yemen Civil War
The North Yemen Civil War was fought in North Yemen between royalists of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and factions of the Yemen Arab Republic from 1962 to 1970. The war began with a coup d'état carried out by the republican leader, Abdullah as-Sallal, which dethroned the newly crowned Imam...
North Yemen at the 1984 Summer Olympics
North Yemen at the 1984 Summer Olympics
North Yemen, as the Yemen Arab Republic, competed for the first time at the Olympic Games at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.-Athletics:Men's 5,000 metres* Ali Al-Ghadi* Heat — 16:06.58...
North Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
North Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
North Yemen competed as the Yemen Arab Republic at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. After unification with South Yemen, the nation would return as Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-Athletics:Men's 10.000 metres* Abdulkarim Dawod...
Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)
Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)
Operation Magic Carpet is a widely-known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles , an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Israel. British and American transport planes made some 380 flights from Aden, in a secret operation that was...
Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
Aden is a city in Yemen. Aden's location made it a popular exchange port for mail passing between places around the Indian Ocean and Europe. Mail is known to exist from June 15, 1839, although a regular postmaster was not appointed until 1857....
President of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
President of Yemen Arab Republic
President of Yemen Arab Republic
The President of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of state of that country in what is now northern Yemen. There were 6 Presidents of North Yemen.-List of Head of State of the Yemen Arab Republic :...
Prime Minister of South Yemen
Prime Minister of Yemen
Prime Minister of Yemen
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Yemen is the head of government in that country. The current Prime Minister, Ali Muhammad Mujawar, has held the position since 7 April 2007. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President...
Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
The Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of government of that country in what is now northern Yemen. The Prime Minister was appointed by the President...
Qahtanite
Qahtanite
The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani refer to Semitic peoples either originating in, or claiming genealogical descent from the southern extent of the Arabian Peninsula, especially from Yemen....
Qutaibi
Qutaibi
Qutaibi or the Qutaibi Sheikhdom was a polity in the western Aden Protectorate. It was a dependency of the Emirate of Dhala and is now part of the Republic of Yemen...
Roman Catholicism in Yemen
Roman Catholicism in Yemen
The Roman Catholic Church in Yemen is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....
Sabaean language
Sabaean language
Sabaean , also known as Himyarite , was an Old South Arabian language spoken in Yemen from c. 1000 BC to the 6th century AD, by the Sabaeans; it was used as a written language by some other peoples of Ancient Yemen, including the Hashidites, Sirwahites, Humlanites, Ghaymanites, Himyarites,...
Sabaeans
Sabaeans
The Sabaeans or Sabeans were an ancient people speaking an Old South Arabian language who lived in what is today Yemen, in the south west of the Arabian Peninsula.Some scholars suggest a link between the Sabaeans and the Biblical land of Sheba....
Sanaa International School
Sanaa International School
Sanaa International School is an international school on the edge of the city of Sana'a, Yemen. It is a nonprofit organization founded in 1971. It provides an English language education, primarily to the children of embassy and United Nations personnel and international workers such as oil and gas...
Sanaa massacre
Sanaa massacre
The Sana'a school shooting was a school shooting that occurred in Sana'a, Yemen, on March 30, 1997. 48-year-old Mohammad Ahman al-Nazari – who had fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan – began his rampage at Tala'i Private School in the Asbahi township. Armed with an illegally obtained...
Sanaani Hebrew language
Saudi-Yemeni War
Saudi-Yemeni War
- The conflict :Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia, had been named King of the Nejd when the British partitioned the Arabian peninsula following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. Ibn Saud, by war and alliance, won control of much more, and in 1932 proclaimed the merger of the Nejd and Hejaz...
Shabab Yemeni
Shabab Yemeni
Shabab Yemeni is an independent, non-partisan youth newsletter that was established in May 2004 as a response to the needs of Yemeni students living abroad.-Goals:* Increase awareness among Yemeni youth and share knowledge and experiences...
Soqotri language
Soqotri language
Soqotri, or Socotri, is the language of the native population of the island of Socotra, and Abd al Kuri and Samhah islands of the Socotra archipelago off the southern coast of the Republic of Yemen...
South Arabian alphabet
South Arabian alphabet
The ancient Yemeni alphabet branched from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC. It was used for writing the Yemeni Old South Arabic languages of the Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramautic, Minaean, Himyarite, and proto-Ge'ez in Dʿmt...
South Yemen
South Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
South Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
South Yemen competed as the Yemen Democratic Republic at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. It was the only time that the nation would compete at the Olympic Games. After unification with North Yemen, the nation would later return as Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics.-References:*...
South Yemen national football team
South Yemen national football team
The South Yemen national football team was the national team of South Yemen between 1965 and 1989. It took part in the Asian Cup finals in 1976, losing 0-8 to Iran and 0-1 to Iraq...
South Yemeni dinar
South Yemeni dinar
The dinar was the currency of South Arabia and then South Yemen between 1965 and 1990. It was subdivided into 1000 fils . After Yemen's monetary unification on 1 July 1990, it was one of the two official currencies used in Yemen Republic until 11 June 1996.-History:The dinar was introduced in 1965...
Transport in Yemen
Transport in Yemen
As a direct consequence of the country’s poverty, Yemen compares unfavorably with its Middle Eastern neighbors in terms of transportation infrastructure and communications network. Roads are generally poor, although several projects are planned to upgrade the system...
United Nations Yemen Observation Mission
United Nations Yemen Observation Mission
The UN Yemen Observation Mission was established in 1963.Yemen entered into a state of civil war in 1962. Yemen had joined Egypt in 1958, and then in 1962, separated again, sparking the conflict....
Unity Factory Day
Unity Factory Day
The Unity Factory Day is a national holiday in Yemen, celebrated on July 7. Workers celebrate by turning their factories into places of recreation and play rather than work on a temporary basis....
Yemen Times
Yemen Times
The Yemen Times is unified Yemen's first and most widely-read independent English-language newspaper. The paper is published twice-weekly and has its own printing press, advertising associates and news service....
Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Yemen competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Before Yemenite reunification in 1990, North Yemen and South Yemen had competed as independent teams.-Athletics:Men's 800 metres*Anwar Mohamed...
Yemen at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Yemen at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Yemen competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-References:*...
Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics
-Athletics:Men's 400m* Basheer Al Khewani*# Round 1 - 49.72 Women's 200m* Hana Ali Saleh*# Round 1 - 30.36 -References:...
Yemen at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Yemen at the 2004 Summer Olympics
-Athletics:Men's 400 metres:* Saeed Al Adhreai**Heat: 49.39 s -Swimming:Men's 50 metre Freestyle:* Mohammed Saad**Heat: 29.97 s -Taekwondo:...
Yemen at the 2006 Asian Games
Yemen at the 2006 Asian Games
Yemen participated in the 2006 Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar with a total of 24 athletes in six different sports.-Medal summary:-External links:*...
Yemen at the Commonwealth Games
Yemen national football team
Yemen national football team
The Yemen national football team , is the national team of Yemen and is controlled by the Yemen Football Association.When the nation was split into North Yemen and South Yemen before 1990, two national teams existed. After unification, the Yemen national football team is considered the successor of...
Yemeni Confederation of Labor Unions
Yemeni Congregation for Reform
Yemeni buqsha
Yemeni buqsha
A buqsha or bogache is a former monetary unit of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic. 40 buqshas make up one Yemeni rial....
Yemeni rial
Yemeni rial
The rial or riyal is the currency of Yemen. It is technically divided into 100 fils, although coins denominated in fils have not been issued since Yemeni unification.-History:...
Yemenia
Yemenia
Yemenia , also known as Yemen Airways is the national airline of Yemen, based in Sana'a. It operates scheduled domestic and international passenger flights to destinations in Africa and the Middle East, as well as to Asia and Europe, out of its hubs at Sana'a International Airport, and Aden...
Yemenite Hebrew language
Yemenite Hebrew language
Yemenite Hebrew , also referred to as Temani Hebrew , is the pronunciation system for Biblical and liturgical Hebrew traditionally used by Yemenite Jews. Yemenite Jews brought their language to Israel through immigration. Their first organized immigration to the region began in 1882.It is believed...
Ziyadid dynasty
Ziyadid dynasty
The Ziyadid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty that ruled western Yemen from 819 until 1018 from the capital city of Zabid. The dynasty was formed by the Abbasid Caliph, al-Ma'mun, to manage 'Alid Shi'a influence...

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