Preface

In Yemen, civil society appeared quite recently: it dates from the first third of the 20th c. The first cooperatives and mutual aid funds emerged at Mukalla and Seyyoun under the influence of the Hadramis’ emigration to Asia and South-Eastern Africa. Later at the end of the World War II, the first trade unions and the first newspapers were established in Aden. By dint of these two processes, dynamic types of organization, that are proper to modern civil society, came into being -popular assoc..