Al-Bawaba (http://albawaba.com/.ie.php3?lang=e)
It is a major portal site that links a number of other websites on all the Arab
countries. It contains up-to-date information on the political, business, social,
cultural and religious aspects of a particular country. Just click on the name
of the country for information in English and Arabic.
Development Gateway Country Overview (http://www.developmentgateway.org/)
"The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals
build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty." Search
by development projects as well as by country to identify additional web sites
and documents.
Fares.net (http://www.fares.net)
Site includes a directory and a list of sites on a wide range of subjects including
tourism, entertainment, culture, the media, news and business in English and
Arabic. Search under the name of the country.
Future Tours Industries - tourism agency (http://www.ftiyemen.com/)
It is the company's profile. FTI, is a member of well-established group
of companies dedicated to quality and environment proving educational and rewarding.
Geography of Yemen (http://www.volcanolive.com/yemen2.html)
This web site provides information on the geography of Yemen.
Global gazetteer (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/)
An online gazetteer searchable by country and then by place. Results give longitude,
latitude, and altitude of each location.
The History Guy: Saudi-Yemeni Border Conflict
(1998) (http://www.historyguy.com/)
It includes description and causes of the 1998 flare up between the two nations
of Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
International Weather From WeatherHub (http://www.weatherhub.com/global/)
An English language home page providing links to sites offering international
weather information by city.
MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/)
General site for maps. Search by country and by city.
Maps.com (formerly Magellan Geographix) (http://www.maps.com/)
User may view samples of the wide variety of maps available as well as order
maps or atlases, by downloading, or on CD-ROM or in hard copy.
Princeton University
Library: Near Eastern Studies Resources (http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epressman/neareast.htm)
Princeton Library's site dedicated to Near Eastern Studies provides not
only invaluable information about Princeton's programs and collections,
but also extensive links to sites (libraries, universities, institutes, think
tanks, directories, gateways, newspapers, etc.) around the world concerning all
aspects of the discipline.
UT library online, Perry-Castañeda (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html)
The University of Texas' Perry Castaneda Library Map collection here offers
a variety of historical, geological and political maps of many countries.
United Nations
Cartographic Section (http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm)
Available in English or French versions. Offers detailed maps of many countries.
United States. Library of Congress Country
Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/)
A series published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress
under the Country Studies/Area Studies Handbook Program sponsored by the Department
of the Army.
United States. Library of Congress.
Geography and Map Division (http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/)
Website of one of the largest map repositories in the world. University
of Texas Middle East Website (http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/menic/countries/)
Excellent website on the government, politics, news and media, education and
the social sciences in the Middle East.
Yemen Flags
Geography.org Yemeni Flag (http://www.geographic.org/flags/ne1/yemen%5Fflags.html)
The flag is tended for representational purposes.
Yemen weather -WeatherHub (http://www.weatherhub.com/index.htm)
It features city-wise weather updates, maps and country information.
Yemen: Biological diversity
assessment of the Republic of Yemen (http://www.wri.org/wdces/ye90%5F559.html)
It is the web site of the World Directory of Country Environmental Studies.
Yemen: Possibility to
solve the Yemeni water problem (http://www.page.org/clearwater/c%5Fyemen.htm)
It provides information about the possibility of solving the Yemeni problem with
solar water distillation.This site, while very good, works very intermittently. |