Noel Brehony is currently Chairman of the British Yemeni Society and the Anglo-Jordanian Society. He has also been Chairman of the Middle East Association and the Council for British Research in the Levant and President of the British Society of Middle East Studies. Brehony had a career as a diplomat after completing a PhD from Durham and post doctoral research in the Middle East. He was in Aden in the early years of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and followed events there until unity in 1990. Brehony is the author of Yemen Divided: the Story of a Failed State in South Arabia and co-editor of British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day. He is on the Advisory Board of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS.

• Foreword by Muhammad bin DohryIntroduction by Abdalla Bujra and Noel BrehonyHadhramaut in YemenChapter One. Hadhramaut in Yemen PoliticsNoel Brehony and Saadaldin Talib.Chapter Two. Hadhrami “Exceptionalism”: attempts at an explanation.Thanos Petouris. Chapter Three. Rural life and land tenure in Wadi Hadhramaut: links with outmigration.Helen Lackner Hadhramaut and the diasporaChapter Four. Visualising the Homeland: the Atlas of Sayyid Uthman of Batavia (1822-1914).Nico Kaptein. Chapter Five.” Revival” of the Hadhrami Diaspora? Networking through Religious Figures in Indonesia.Kazuhiro Arai.Chapter Six. Arab Muslim migrants in the colonial Philippines: the Hadhramaut connection.William Clarence-SmithChapter Seven. Scimitar for Hire: Yemeni Fighters Abroad.James Spencer. Chapter Eight. Citizenship and belonging amongst the Hadhramis of Kenya.Iain WalkerChapter Nine. Diaspora or network? Hadhrami diaspora reconsidered through the lens of trade. Philippe PetriatChapter Ten. From Barefoot Doctors to Professors of Medicine in Seventy-Five Years 1940-2015.Adel Aulaqi Research issuesChapter Eleven. Rediscovering Hadhramaut: paradigms of research.Leif Manger.Chapter Twelve. Research Issues on Hadhramaut.Abdalla Bujra.BibliographyNotes on contributorsIndex

Noel Brehony is currently Chairman of the British Yemeni Society and the Anglo-Jordanian Society. He has also been Chairman of the Middle East Association and the Council for British Research in the Levant and President of the British Society of Middle East Studies. Brehony had a career as a diplomat after completing a PhD from Durham and post doctoral research in the Middle East. He was in Aden in the early years of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and followed events there until unity in 1990. Brehony is the author of Yemen Divided: the Story of a Failed State in South Arabia and co-editor of British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day. He is on the Advisory Board of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS.

• Foreword by Muhammad bin DohryIntroduction by Abdalla Bujra and Noel BrehonyHadhramaut in YemenChapter One. Hadhramaut in Yemen PoliticsNoel Brehony and Saadaldin Talib.Chapter Two. Hadhrami “Exceptionalism”: attempts at an explanation.Thanos Petouris. Chapter Three. Rural life and land tenure in Wadi Hadhramaut: links with outmigration.Helen Lackner Hadhramaut and the diasporaChapter Four. Visualising the Homeland: the Atlas of Sayyid Uthman of Batavia (1822-1914).Nico Kaptein. Chapter Five.” Revival” of the Hadhrami Diaspora? Networking through Religious Figures in Indonesia.Kazuhiro Arai.Chapter Six. Arab Muslim migrants in the colonial Philippines: the Hadhramaut connection.William Clarence-SmithChapter Seven. Scimitar for Hire: Yemeni Fighters Abroad.James Spencer. Chapter Eight. Citizenship and belonging amongst the Hadhramis of Kenya.Iain WalkerChapter Nine. Diaspora or network? Hadhrami diaspora reconsidered through the lens of trade. Philippe PetriatChapter Ten. From Barefoot Doctors to Professors of Medicine in Seventy-Five Years 1940-2015.Adel Aulaqi Research issuesChapter Eleven. Rediscovering Hadhramaut: paradigms of research.Leif Manger.Chapter Twelve. Research Issues on Hadhramaut.Abdalla Bujra.BibliographyNotes on contributorsIndex

Noel Brehony is currently Chairman of the British Yemeni Society and the Anglo-Jordanian Society. He has also been Chairman of the Middle East Association and the Council for British Research in the Levant and President of the British Society of Middle East Studies. Brehony had a career as a diplomat after completing a PhD from Durham and post doctoral research in the Middle East. He was in Aden in the early years of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and followed events there until unity in 1990. Brehony is the author of Yemen Divided: the Story of a Failed State in South Arabia and co-editor of British-Egyptian Relations from Suez to the Present Day. He is on the Advisory Board of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS.

• Foreword by Muhammad bin DohryIntroduction by Abdalla Bujra and Noel BrehonyHadhramaut in YemenChapter One. Hadhramaut in Yemen PoliticsNoel Brehony and Saadaldin Talib.Chapter Two. Hadhrami “Exceptionalism”: attempts at an explanation.Thanos Petouris. Chapter Three. Rural life and land tenure in Wadi Hadhramaut: links with outmigration.Helen Lackner Hadhramaut and the diasporaChapter Four. Visualising the Homeland: the Atlas of Sayyid Uthman of Batavia (1822-1914).Nico Kaptein. Chapter Five.” Revival” of the Hadhrami Diaspora? Networking through Religious Figures in Indonesia.Kazuhiro Arai.Chapter Six. Arab Muslim migrants in the colonial Philippines: the Hadhramaut connection.William Clarence-SmithChapter Seven. Scimitar for Hire: Yemeni Fighters Abroad.James Spencer. Chapter Eight. Citizenship and belonging amongst the Hadhramis of Kenya.Iain WalkerChapter Nine. Diaspora or network? Hadhrami diaspora reconsidered through the lens of trade. Philippe PetriatChapter Ten. From Barefoot Doctors to Professors of Medicine in Seventy-Five Years 1940-2015.Adel Aulaqi Research issuesChapter Eleven. Rediscovering Hadhramaut: paradigms of research.Leif Manger.Chapter Twelve. Research Issues on Hadhramaut.Abdalla Bujra.BibliographyNotes on contributorsIndex