[ 11 Issues ] Yemen Update: Bulletin of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies. Issues 30/31-41.

11 Issues together, compelte from Issue 30/31 to Issue 41. - Einb�e weisen leichte Gebrauchsspuren auf, Nr. 38 mit einigen Anstreichungen im Heft / Covers show slight signs of usage, Issue 38 with some annotations in the issue. - AIYS NEWS AIYS Fellowships Letter from San�a�: Warburton Medieval Astronomical Instruments A Trip to the Hadramawt Yemen's Faculty of Agriculture Poverty and Development in Yemen Mud, Sand and Sod's Law in Zabid Arabia Antiqua New Evidence for the Frankincense Route Jabal "Herzog" North American Committee for the Support of UNESCO Projects in Yemen Yemen Reviews: Tim Morris: The Despairing Developer Yemen Themes: New Serjeant Volume Information Exchange On Yemen: Events and Conferences Where to Buy Arabic Books in the U.S in this issue ARTICLES: Qud� The Traditional Yemeni Plaster [S. Al-Radi] "Phenomenal Success" in Oil Field Explorations [E. Watkins] Interview: Hamid Algadri [C. Myntti] Wildlife and Conservation in Eastern Yemen [M. C. Jennings] Under the Roofs of San'a* [A. Rihani] INDEX YEMENICUS MISCELLANEOUS: Yemen News and Information Miscellany The Qatalog YEMEN REVIEWS: Dictionary of Post-Classical Arabic [Piamenta] Somewhat Less than Reality [Damluji]. Socotra Comes to Light [Naumkin] Halliday's Arabs in Exile [Halliday] Yemen Classics #4 Al-Yaman al-Kubr�IYS NEWS: News of Members New AIYS Publication 1994-1995 AIYS Fellowships. AIYS Seeks New Resident Director ARTICLES The Baboons of Jabal Bura [C. Jolly]. Leasing-Contracts in the Mashriq [S. Kohler] Yemeni Women�s Traditional Cosmetics (Part I) [H. Sch�nig] Indian Ocean: Emergence of a Future Economic Block [I. Knehtl] The Arabic Anthology of al-Malik al-Afdal [D. Varisco] MISCELLANEOUS News about Yemen The Search for Phinneas A. Crutch The Qatalog Index Yemenicus Yemen Miscellany Editorial YEMEN REVIEWS Burrowes on Yemen (Burrowes) Yemenites in Israel (Lewis) From South Arabia to Spain (Jayyusi) Urban Islam: A Japanese View (Haneda et al.) Qafisheh Responds AIYSNEWS Membership Information AIYS on the Move [N. Sadek] AIYS Fellowships AIYS Publications CONTENTS ARTICLES Roots of Agriculture in South Arabia [J. McCorriston] BOOK EXCERPT The Commerce and Trade of the Rasulids in the Yemen, 630-858/1231-1454, [Nayef al-Shamrookh, 1996] YEMEN REVIEWS Cultures of the World: Yemen, Hestler, 1999 [D. Varisco] Middle Eastern Sketches, Katz, 1997 [T. Stevenson] Die Farbe des Regens'- Entstehung und Entwicklung der modernen jemenitischen Kurzgeschichte - Muhammad Abdalwali, Zaid Muti' Dammag und Ahmad Mahfuz Umar, Orth, 1997 [G. Kundel] The Jews of Yemen, Tobi, 1999 [D. Varisco] YEMEN REVIEW ESSAY Being There (When �There�is Yemen) [D. Varisco] Review of Eating the Flowers of Paradise: One Man �s Journey through Ethiopia and Yemen, Rushby, 1999; Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Mackintosh-Smith, 1997; Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia, Horwitz, 1992; Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, Eric Hansen, 1991. AIYS NEWS Fellowships for Study and Research in Yemen US FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION, 1998-99 Awards.