‘Our land is the dictionary of our people – this land of far horizons where the graves of our ancestors sleep, this earth trodden by processions of sons and sons of sons.’

Abdullah al-Baradduni, Funun al-adab al-sha’bi fi ’l-yaman, 1995

‘One’s ideas as to the nature of Arabia are entirely upset.’

Walter Harris, A Journey through the Yemen, 1893