Bøger om Yemen

“Mellemøsten Nu” samler landets mest indsigtsfulde Mellemøsteksperter, der i 16 analyser giver læseren et komplet overblik over de vigtigste udviklinger, konflikter og dilemmaer i regionen. Indholdsfortegnelse: – Rolf Holmboe: Det ulykkelige Arabien – Lars Erslev Andersen: I fremtidens Mellemøsten vil millioner leve i permanente undtagelseszoner – Tore Refslund Hamming: Trods næsten 20 års kamp står den jihadistiske bevægelse stærkere end nogensinde før – Troels Burchall Henningsen: Irak: Kan kalifatet genopstå? – Sune Haugbølle: Kommer retfærdigheden til Syrien? – Deniz Serinci: Kurderne i Syrien: Hellere leve med Assad end kæmpe mod Erdogan – David Vestenskov: Afganistan: Freden er farlig – Maria-Louise Clausen: Yemen: Hvordan kan vi forstå verdens største humanitære katastrofe? – Rasmus Christian Elling: Irans verden – Lars Erslev Andersen og Fannie Agershou Madsen: Derfor bryder Vesten ikke med Saudi-Arabien – Rasmus Boserup: Egypten: Frygter Sisi folket? – Hans Henrik Fafner: Et andet Israel – Torben Toftgaard Engen: Frankrigs krig i Sahel ligner en succes – Morten Valbjørn: Svar på sekterisme – Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen: Magtpolitikken slår igen – Helle Malmvig: Det nye magtspil i Mellemøsten

Bread and Henna: an engaging travel narrative relating a social anthropologist''s experiences of eighteen months living among the women of a small mountain town in Yemen during the early 1980s. Through insights into the life and cuisine of a remote community, Ianthe Maclagan offers an authentic window on a world that has gone - an intimate portrait of a country typically in the news for reasons of war and humanitarian disaster.

Mamayh ar-Rumi ad-DimaSqi was one of the most significant Damascan poets in the 10th/16th century, whose verses were sung from Damascus to Yemen. Based on the current results of the ongoing edition of Mamayh's diwan (Rawdat al-muStaq wa-bahgat al-'uSSaq "Garden of the ardent yearner and the joy of the lovers") this study discusses a selection of poems in which the poet converses with the literary past by not only using mimetic and emulative techniques (like tadmin, iqtibas, and tahmis poems) but also through the use of more modern styles, forms and topics (like 'atil verses, coffee poems, and vernacular poems). While the mimetic poems refer directly to the admired or canonized models of the past perpetuating the tradition into the poet's present, the focus of the contemporary topics in the diwan is on how the poet's present is connected to the poetic and aesthetic practices of the past. With the analysis of Mamayh's poetry, the study offers evidence of the impressive literary and intellectual background of an initially Ottomanized and then 'Syrianized' (former soldier-) poet, as well as his tremendous poetic creativity in melding together the 'old' and the 'new' in his verse.

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, What Have You Left Behind? powerfully draws together civilian accounts of the Yemeni civil war and serves as a vital reminder of the scale of the human tragedy behind the headlines.

This new full-colour title from Bradt is the first and only guide available to the largest of the four islands that make up the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Socotra Archipelago in the Arabian Sea, 240 miles offshore from their mother land, Yemen. Everything you might need for a successful trip is covered, from pre-departure planning, getting there, tour operators and where to stay to the full range of information for making the most of your time while there. Background information on history, people, language and culture is followed by an easy-to-follow geographical breakdown covering everywhere from the capital Hadibo to Ayhaft Canyon National Park, Qaria Lagoon, Rosh Marine Protected Area, Homhil Reserv, Terbak village and Hoq cave, Qalansiyah, Diksam Plateau and the forest of Firhimin to name just a few of the places detailed. There is also a section on vocabulary, an endemic wildlife check list and suggested sources of further information. Socotra is unique. Sometimes known as 'The Galapagos of the Indian Ocean', the archipelago has an exceptionally large number of endemic species. Of the 220 bird species recorded, 11 are endemic, including the relatively recently identified Socotra Buzzard. Closer to the ground, an estimated 307 plant species are endemic. More than 600 species of insects, some 100 land and freshwater molluscs, around 80 arachnids, some dozen myriapods, four land- and fresh-water crabs, 30 reptiles and 14 mammals have been found to occur, of which all the land snails, 90 % of the reptiles and about 60 % of the spiders are unique to the archipelago. With its superb beaches and dramatically varied landscapes (mountains, forest, ravines, sand-dunes, beaches, caves .) Socotra is a prime target for tourism, which will need handling with extreme care. Strict regulations are in force to preserve the island's natural heritage and much of it has protected status, but some unprotected land has already been sold to potential developers.

Carsten Niebuhr blev født i 1733. Han voksede op langt ude i marsken. Der var så fladt, at han kunne se til verdens ende. Næsten. Måske det var det, der gav ham lyst til at vide, hvad der lå endnu længere borte. Det ønske fik han opfyldt, da den danske konge sendte ham ud på en ekspedition til Arabien – eller Det Lykkelige Arabien, som man kaldte det.Det blev til en meget lang og farefuld ekspedition!