Figure 1.--This is aconvents chool in Yemen duringb 1963. It was attended by British and Yemeni children (1963). The school appears to be operated by the Vicariate Apostolic of Arabia. We are not sure that the Yemeni children, mostly girls and younger boys, were all Christians. The way the girls are dressed, especially the older girls, are not how Yemeni girls dressed. In many Arab countries, many women wore fashionanle clothes in the 1960s, a trend toward Islamic dress began in the 1970s, even in universities. But Yemen was a very conservative country and fashionable Western clothing would not have been worn by many women there.

The British did establish a substantial education system in Aden. The first schools in a modern Western sence were probably opened by Christian churches, we believe during the British era. Christian churches were common in many areas of the Middle East, Nirth Africa and the Levant, but not on the Arabian Peninsula. Thus the churches in Yemen probably mostly if not all date to the British era. We note a Christian convent school attended by British and Yemeni children (1963). The school appears to be operated by the Vicariate Apostolic of Arabia. We are not sure that the Yemeni children, mostly girls and younger boys, were all Christians. The way the girls are dressed, especially the older girls, are not how Yemeni girls dressed. In Arab countries, many middle class women might wear fashionanle clothes in the 1960s, a trend toward Islamic dress began in the 1970s, even in universities. But Yemen was a very conservative country and fashionable Western clothing would not have been worn by many women there. We are not sure when the British effort to create a public school system began. We believe mostly after World War II. The British in the early-60s were helping fund a modern school system including 40 primry schools, 34 intermediare schools, and 12 secondary schools. (Our source document is very difficult to read so we are not positive about the nymbers.) . They were a mix of gvernent, grant-aided, and private schools.)

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