The first of its kind in the country, the Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies is inaugurated in Sana’a [Archives:2008/1180/Local News]

SANA'A, Aug. 7) The Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies was officially inaugurated in Sana'a last Thursday, and is considered the first private accredited institution in Yemen to teach students from all over the world about the Middle East and its issues.

Sabri Ahmed Saleem, President of the Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies, or YCMES, maintained that the college will focus on its instruction of contemporary history of the Middle East region, a field that is rarely taught in the European and American universities, which focus more on the history before World War I. “While the study of the region's pre-history and pre-modern history