gender history

“Gold and Silver, branded horses and well-tilled land”: Gender and Hadrami Migration

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

by Ismail Fajrie Alatas

Hadramaut is a region in South Arabia along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastward from Yemen proper to the region of Dhofar in Oman. The inhabitants of this land, the Hadramis had long traversed the Indian Ocean, along the ancient trade route connecting the Middle East to the ‘lands below the wind’. […]