Hussein Abdullah Al-Amri (; born 1944- ) is a Yemeni diplomat and writer. He served as ambassador of Yemen to the United Kingdom from 1995 to 2001.
Early life and education
Hussain was born in the city of Sana’a in the State of Yemen and grew up there where he studied. He graduated from Damascus University with a BA in history from the Faculty of Arts, a master's degree from Cambridge University, and a doctorate from the British University of Durham.
Career Path
Hussein began his career when he held a number of administrative positions in Yemen, becoming at one point an ambassador and then a deputy minister. Hussein is a scholar and political historian from a well-known house of knowledge, and a professor of modern and contemporary history at Sana’a university. He has participated in many academic and scientific seminars and conferences, and has many books, research, studies and investigations.
Hussein has authored a book entitled “The Modern and Contemporary History of Yemen: From Al-Mutawakil Ismail to Al-Mutawakil Yahya Hamid Al-Din,” a book that includes various articles, lectures and theses - compiled as the author says for the sake of researchers and foreign readers interested in the political and cultural history of Yemen - dealing with the modern and contemporary history of Yemen. Extending between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the text of a fatwa by the future scholar on the legal status of the Batiniyya and Ismailis among the residents of Hamdan, which had never been published, and a document containing the correspondences of Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din with the tribes of eastern and southern Yemen for the liberation of Aden from British forces, reveals. It shows what was stated, first, in the sacred national document, which represents the theoretical orientation and the temporary constitution of the national movement and the forces opposing Imam Yahya, and secondly, the national document of 1982, whose beginning and conditions were represented by the 1962 revolution in the north and independence in the south in 1967, while he was passing through Yemen has experienced severe periods of struggle, instability, the emergence of extremism, and the different opinions of the Islamic right and the Marxist–Leninist left. Then he gives a brief history; He recalls Yemen's relations with Europe and the Kingdom of Holland, and talks briefly about the life of the last imam, Muhammad al-Badr, who ruled Yemen after the withdrawal of the Turks in 1636. Finally, the book discusses in detail the role of the Yemeni/Arab media in Asia during the twentieth century, and the Yemeni (Hadrami) role. In East Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, then he talks about Yemen's similarity with Vienna in terms of beauty and the Ottoman siege of both.