Yemen: Guide to Events

This volume features: a complete listing of all Yemeni events and exhibitions in the UK during 2002 and 2003, including exhibitions in London, Oxford, Edinburgh and Sana'a film festival study days, food, coffee and handicrafts events; as well as essays and writings by Wilfred Thesiger, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Leila Ingrams, Carl Philips, St. John Simpson, Venetia Porter, Freya Stark and other scholars, travellers and Yemenologists; This work is an illustrated introduction to the culture of Yemen, the Romans' Arabia Felix. History, archaeology, architecture, music, spices and natural history of this ancient and unique country are all covered in brief essays by some of the most distinguished names in Arabian studies.