Home / Explore places / Yemen
Stories Set in Yemen
Yemen sits at the southwestern tip of Arabia, with high mountain villages, Red Sea ports and Hadramaut valleys. Centuries of caravan wealth followed by isolation and civil war since 2014 left tower cities and strained daily life, so stories stress endurance and hospitality. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Cutting for Stone sit on its shelf. Open Yemen on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Yemen on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Yemen
Live snapshot of the top 10 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-05). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.
Browse 6 books, 7 movies and 5 games set in Yemen.
Cutting for Stone
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful…
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
Rules of Engagement
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.
Dirty Wars
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars and examines how the US government has responded to international…
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Black Ops II is the first game in the Call of Duty franchise to feature future warfare technology and the first to present branching storylines driven by player choice as well as selecting weapons before starting story…
Stolen Seas
Stolen Seas presents a chilling exploration of the Somali pirate phenomenon and forces you to rethink everything you thought you knew about pirates. It's November 8th 2008 and the CEC Future a Danish-owned merchant ship…
I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced
Ten-year-old Nojoom was forced to marry a 30-year-old man. The dowry offered the family a small income and 'one less mouth to feed'. Nojoom discovers that her life will take a turn for the worse. Her husband is…
Portrait of a Spy
Haunted by his failure to stop a suicide bomber in London, Gabriel Allon is summoned to Washington and drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror. At the center of the threat is an American-born…
Mogadischu
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181 which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977 and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure…
Shockwave: Countdown to Disaster
A stolen seismic weapon is activated in Yemen. A hostage freed there tries in vain to warn against its global effect. It starts seismic activity at the Californian fault line where her daughter and ex are monitoring it.…
The 10 stories above are just a sample of the 18 in the catalogue for this entry. For the full live catalogue, open Yemen in the StoryTerra app. On the live map you can also filter by the exact time the stories take place — any year, decade or century, from BCE to the future.
Keep exploring
Saudi Arabia · Oman · Jordan · All places