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unusual facts about Yemeni


Hussein al-Yemeni

Hussein al-Yemeni is believed to have been a victim of an early March strike in the Miran Shah area of Pakistan.


Abdel Fattah

Samir Abdel Fattah, Yemeni short story writer, novelist and playwright

Abdulelah Haider Shaye

He has used his relation through marriage with radical Islamic cleric Abdul Majeed al-Zindani to help him gain interview access to Al Qaeda leaders, including the late Yemeni-American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

Abdulrab

Habib Abdulrab Sarori (born 1956), Yemeni computer scientist and writer

Abu Qubays

In 1222 the Shia Yemeni lord of Sinjar, Abu Muhammad al-Makhzun al-Sinjari, led a force of roughly 50,000 fighters to support the Alawites of the coastal region against their Kurdish rivals after the latter had killed several Alawites celebrating Nowruz in the Sahyun Fortress.

Afrotropic ecozone

Some of the notable are Jabal Bura', Jabal Raymah, and Jabal Badaj in the Yemeni highland escarpment, and the seasonal forests in eastern Yemen and the Dhofar region of Oman.

Ahmed Salah

Ahmed Saleh, eldest son of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh

Ahmed Saleh

The ceremony was also attended by UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, and the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Dr Ali Mansour bin Svaa.

Al-Mansur Muhammad

Muhammad bin Ali as-Siraji al-Washali was one of the three Sayyids who claimed the Yemeni imamate after the death of al-Mutawakkil al-Mutahhar in Dhamar in 1474.

Ali bin Ali Douha

Yemeni security officials are reported to have been tracking the suspects by helicopter 15 kilometers outside of Ma'rib.

Arab Christians

The latter were of Qahtani origin and spoke Yemeni-Arabic as well as Greek, and who protected the south-eastern frontiers of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in north Arabia.

Ataq

Ataq is described by Lonely Planet as "not at all like an inland Yemeni town"; other publications have described it as Beau Geste in appearance and "completely different" and surrounded by desert.

Battle of Zinjibar

On 21 July, government officials reported the death of another Yemeni al-Qaeda leader, Ayad al-Shabwani, in fighting near Zinjibar on 19 July.

On 13 November, Yemeni army and tribal fighters killed nine suspected Al-Qaeda militants in fighting in Zinjibar.

Dawoodi Bohra

Arwa was designated a hujjah (a holy, pious lady), the highest rank in the Yemeni Dawat, by al-Mustansir in 1084 CE.

Day of Thirst

Expecting Muslim's imminent recall by the new regime, the Yemeni troops in Balkh initially refused to join the campaign, but were forced to join the army when a force composed of Mudaris (northern Arabs) under Nasr ibn Sayyar marched against them and defeated them at Baruqan.

Death of Jamal al-Sharaabi

Death of Jamal al-Sharaabi, also known as Jamal Ahmad Al-Sharaabi, (Arabic: جمال احمد الشرعبي, c. 1976 - 18 March 2011) was a Yemeni photojournalist with the independent weekly, Al-Masdar, in Sana'a, Yemen.

Djiboutian cuisine

Djiboutian cuisine consists of a mixture of Somali, Afar, Yemeni and French cuisine, with some additional Asian and Indian culinary influences.

Elaph

However, it was argued by Yemen Observer that the real reason for the block was reports of Elaph containing personal criticism of then Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh and his elder son Ahmed.

Field post office

Indian Field Post Offices 1903-04, The Aden-Yemeni Boundary Commission, The Somaliland Field Force, Robson Lowe, 1979.

Free Yemeni Movement

The Free Yemeni Movement (al-yamaniyin al-ahrar) was a nationalist political movement active in the politics of North Yemen from the mid-1930s until the 1962 Yemeni revolution.

Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi

On 5 June 2013, tens of thousands of Yemeni Shias attended the reburial of the remains of al-Houthi in Sa'dah, where armed rebels were deployed in large numbers.

Israel–Yemen relations

When the Israeli singer, Ofra Haza planned to visit Yemen, her country of origin, the Yemeni government gave its approval.

Jabal al-'Awd

In 1998 the German Archaeological Institute requested permission from the Yemeni Archaeology Authority to start official excavations of the site, primarily to establish where exactly the illicitly excavated objects were found, and also to investigate further any evidence of cultural relations between Yemen and especially the Mediterranean in early Himyaritic times.

Jarallah

Jarallah Omar (1942-2002), Yemeni politician, intellectual and guerrilla fighter

Killing of British tourists in Yemen

The next day, 200 Yemeni troops surrounded the kidnappers and the hostages in Al Wade'a District.

Mukhtar al-Bakri

Mukhtar was born in 1981, along with a twin brother named Amin, to Ali al-Bakri, a Yemeni who had immigrated to the United States decades earlier, and had spent the past 25 years working in the Sorrento Cheese Factory in New York.

Sadam Ali

Ali's doping test at the exhibition returned positive for Cathine, a banned stimulant found in the illegal Yemeni drug Khat.

Ali argues he had taken Cathine inadvertently after contracting a cold in China, but widespread use of hallucinogen drug Khat is known among the Yemeni American community.

Tahiride

The Tahir clan were Yemeni magnates who originated from the area of Juban and al-Miqranah, about 80 kilometers south of Rada'a.

Tarek Al-Wazir

His parents divorced while he was a child, and he spent several years of his youth in the Yemeni capital (Sana'a) with his father, an experience he later described as very influential in his personal development.

Terrorism in Yemen

A CIA-controlled Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at an SUV in the Yemeni desert containing Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a Yemeni suspected senior al-Qaeda lieutenant believed to have been the mastermind behind the October 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 Americans.

Tina Gharavi

Through her company, Bridge + Tunnel Productions, Gharavi produced a documentary about the first settled Muslim community in the UK- the Yemeni Community in South Shields and the day Muhammad Ali got married in the local mosque The King of South Shields.

United Kingdom–Yemen relations

The UK-Yemeni relationship dates back to 1839, when the strategically crucial southern port was conquered by the British East India Company.

Wafah Dufour

Her father, Yeslam bin Ladin (half brother of Osama bin Laden), is Saudi Arabian (father of Yemeni origin and mother of Iranian origin) and her mother, Carmen bin Ladin, is of Swiss father and Iranian mother from a noble family (mothers name: Mirdoth/Sheybani).

Yahia Badreddin al-Houthi

al-Houthi cosigned a letter to the Yemeni government with Abdullah al-Ruzami, the rebels' military leader, in May 2005 offering an end to the uprising if the government would send emissaries or ended the military campaign against the rebels.

Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay

An article published in the Yemen Post on November 13, 2012, reported on secret terms in the US-Yemeni repatriation negotiations.

Yemeni presidential election, 2006

On 12 September 2006, at least 51 people were killed and more than 200 injured when a stampede broke out in a stadium packed with thousands of supporters of Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh.


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