Hadrami-Arabic Press in Southeast Asia: a historical survey

Abstract

Publications produced by Yemeni émigré communities in Southeast Asia are frequently overlooked by both Yemeni specialists and by Southeast Asian specialists because of barriers in language, geography, and academic discipline. With funding from the American Institute of Yemeni Studies (AIYS), I proposed to prepare a bibliography which would list and describe Southeast Asian language publications and also Arabic vernacular publications of the Yemeni/Hadrami communities in Singapore, Penang, Johore, Surabaya, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur. Each of these areas has been home to substantial Yemeni/Hadrami populations. My intention, in preparing this bibliography, has been to enable Yemeni specialists to gain a new dimension to their research on political and social conditions in the home countries of the émigrés as well as to gain insights on the status and integration of the émigrés into the society of their new host