Britain's First Yemenis | Al Jazeera World
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- Yemen has been in turmoil since the revolution of 2011, the overthrow of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in May 2012 and the Houthi-led rebellion beginning in September 2014.
Half a world away in the UK, British Yemenis view events in their home country with concern - and feel a responsibility to offer help to the country and its people at a difficult time.
But their own story is also worth hearing.
Yemenis are among the longest-established Muslim communities in Britain. They have put down firm roots in several coastal towns and industrial cities across the country.
Yemeni sailors worked in the British merchant navy in the engine rooms of steam ships leaving the old colonial port of Aden in the mid-19th century.
When British sailors were called to fight in World War One, their places were taken by Yemeni men who then started to settle in the UK. Their lives were tough, working first as seamen and then as cheap labour in heavy industry in England and Wales.
Some of the immigrant men who arrived in the 1950s are still alive and tell their stories, providing a unique insight into life in the British Yemeni community - but also touching on race riots, unionisation, integration, intermarriage and cultural identity.
Second, third and fourth generation Yemenis in Cardiff, Sheffield and the West Midlands also talk about what it means to be British Arabs today, about maintaining tradition, the survival of their language and community, about Yemen itself and what they can do now that a major conflict has broken out.
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Bless them our fathers and grandfathers who worked so hard to support their families.
Mashallah god bless them, got so much respect!
Fantastic documentary. My father was form Aden (Yemen) my mother from sheffield…..I’m proud to be of mixed heritage. Documentaries like this need to be shown as a lot of the younger generation have no clue why or how their ancestors came to Britain
He said "over three and have thousand voluntary Yemeni sailors died during the first world the Cardiff community alone lost 1000 men which is a huge amount for a relatively small community"...
Wherever the Yemenis go, they make sacrifices to the country where they live and they work honestly and they do not cause chaos
Henry Tudor yes sir
proud to be a Yemeni boy.
Rock on boy
Me to am proud to be Yemeni boy
I’m proud to be a big boy
Where is your village exactelly ?
من فلسطين العربية
نحبكم و نحترمكم يا أهل اليمن السعيد أصل العرب ☝🏾🤍💚
Yemenites are not arsbs they are descendentse of the sheebbah from the Bible. The queen of sheebbah came to visit king salomon
I am Somali and Yemeni myself and this is such an interesting doucumentary! Proud to be Yemeni!
@Ifrah Ali My mom is Somali and my dad is Yemeni (a quarter Somali)! Thats lovely, I am actually connected to both sides but I have always been with my Yemeni side.
@Ifrah Ali Mashallah that is nice, yeah I am going through the same thing too lol. I have been told many times I dont look Somali due to my skin and facial features, my skin is tan as well so they think I look more Yemeni. I can tell you are Somali because of your name, beautiful name mashallah. Basically my dad is a quarter Somali because my granddad was half Somali half Yemeni, my grandma is Yemeni.
@Ifrah Ali I see and yes I am from the UK! where in Somalia and Yemen are you from?
@Ifrah Ali Nice, Minnesota has got a big Somali community mashallah and I am from London
My grandad is from yemen he died before I was born. He had a ship and he would bring yemenis to work on the docks in Liverpool. I was brought up for 15 years with no knowledge of my dads side of the family. All I know is that my grandad must have had some influence because he met with Winston Churchill. I think his ship was called the Mary rose and I think his name was Ali habourby. If anyone reading this can help if this story resonates with your fsmilys story in Liverpool maybe your grandad knew my grandad I would love to know more about my heritage especially as a British mixed raced yemeni Britain holds the key to ending the war there.
Most came from Aden, which speak English already, British colonized Aden for 125 years. And when the British left, they left Aden in political battle between the tribes and city folks. British took resources from Aden 125yrs, now it's time pay back. But, Aden people do have a lot of good memories when the Brits were in Aden. Pray for Aden! Aden is beautiful everyone wants a piece of Aden, but, not everyone deserves Aden. And we are Adenies, we are Aden nationalist forever, south Arabian.
Adennative, Actually to be precise, 128 years the Brits occupied Aden.
From 1839 to 1967.
Only aden which makes up less than 10% of the country soon as the northerners came down the british got massacred and the only reason the british managed to take aden was because yemen was divided between north and south never has YEMEN been invaded
@@foofoo7146 I wanna learn more about this where did you get your source
You ain’t adeni
@@Mmm-gp9bb Yemeni have a history of claiming things for money. Starting with Mecca kaba, ect. They are not invaders but if they find a way they will take. Aden was a sultanate. People migrate to Aden from Yemen, India ect. Just because your personal ancestors are from Yemen doesn’t make Aden Yemen. Aden is part of Arabia. There are makes dating from 1300 no mention of Yemen. If Aden belong to Yemen then why did they destroy it. Shut water system, electricity, invited immigrants, shut down business and manipulating the educated people in Aden to go to Yemen incentivize by houses, salaries ect. They don’t love anyone. Ever heard of the Yemeni gov funding scholarship for other Arabs, no! They only take.
Shoutout to all my Yemeni’s out there.
Im a Yemeni from Singapore. 🇾🇪
i loved this documentary
These Yemenis were given the worst jobs and paid only one-quarter salary that a British sailor earned.
I live in gulf state as my father immigrant in 60s but they still treat us as third peoples in the state thats in Arab states
A story to be told.. thanks.
amazing Documentary May allah make it easy for My country Yemen and assit them in these hard times
Ameen ya rab
This is excellent would like to see more about the yemenies .
They are exceptional.
There would not be British empire if it was not for the Indians and the Yemenites who worked for the British.
I'm so proud to be a Yemeni guy
Subhanallah
The Yemeni’s in South Shields are all integrated into the town. Loads of people I know are part Yemeni even some of them are pale and ginger which is weird to think about. Even Fada is one of the most popular surnames in the town
They been in The U.K. For almost 100 Years.
More more more
More than 150 y
Woahhhh just thinking about it .. I’m glad my parents were not part of this group of people who went to the UK!!! Imagine me speaking in a British accent lmaoooooo
American accent is clapped so calm down cuz not all of us speak like queens English
😂 😂 😂
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السلام عليكم احتاج مساعدة فقط باجابة عن بعض الاسئلة بخصوص الجوء اتمنا من اي شخص يستطيع التواصل معي اكون شاكر لكم
كيف التواصل والإفادة
Come. 2 in 1
A very excellent video about the Yemeni community in Britain, and most of them were Ashmoor from the Muqbana (Shamir) Taiz Directorate and my grandparents were Hassan Abbas, who was working as a sailor and grandfather Muhammad Hassan Abbas, who was working in the Iron and Steel Factory in the city of Birmingham, your brother / Hamdi Abdul Rahman Muhammad Hassan Abbas Al-Shamiri (770839278) Sana'a, Yemen
Salam alaykum - Which village in Maqbana?
The princess
We are the ones who forced the British out of Yemen😎✋
The British left a year early because there was no point staying after the Suez Canal was closed earlier in 67
I have 11 billion dollars
It's the wrong way episodes
so much mention of semen!
either (british) white semen or (yemeni) arab semen!
They have been their for almost 50 years, such a long period of time ,but the greatest disaster ,they don,t speak single English word what a shame?!
Salem Ghanem who says they cant ? This is an arabic documentary so they talk arabic
In my opinion not speaking English is nothing to be ashamed of.
The most of them were working in ships nd were not mingled with British people coz they spend their time in ships. So when they were arriving the British shores, even they often didn't enter the cities till they retired after that they lived in UK, but some of them were speaking good english and some speaking little. But who came to the UK and stayed in the UK these people were speaking perfect English and their kids speak just English and some Arabic .
This the main reason
First more them 130 year's
Second its ARABIC DOCUMENTARY
AND THEY'RE ARAB'S SO THEY SPEAKS ARABIC MAN !!!!
I think you’ll find that many Arabs speak many languages