It was only later when I was doing a book on the Jews of the Yemen that I picked up the trail again in southern Arabia. It was a wonderful, wonderful quest and it was very meaningful for me—the ...

Nehmé Movements of people along routes of trade were bringing new commodities northwards, such aromatics including frankincense, a resin formed from the sap of a tree native to southern Arabia ...

In Saudi Arabia, no form of worship other than Islam is allowed but there is a minute Catholic presence. In 2020, at the death of the previous vicar, Bishop Camillo Ballin, the Vicar of southern ...