Month: August 2019
- Aug- 2019 -31 AugustArt
A Visit to Fine Artist Yassin Ghaleb’s House
What if we lived throughout our childhood in a house where the walls are covered with artistic pieces…
Read More » - 29 AugustArt
Intimate Walls
In the words of the poet Abdulaziz al-Maqaleh, “Sana’a is the capital of the soul and a tavern…
Read More » - 28 AugustCulture
The Longing for Equal Citizenship:
Equal O servants of Allah we are equal No one is born free while the other born…
Read More » - 27 AugustCulture
Abdullah Hadi Subayt
Poet, composer and singer, Abdullah Hadi Subayt (1918–2007) was a pioneering Yemeni figure, in written word and original…
Read More » - 26 AugustCulture
Our Roots
A few friends and I were watching the game between Algeria and the Ivory Coast during the Africa…
Read More » - 24 AugustLiterature
Reem
The sun, at its peak over the dusty, barefoot boys playing on the street before lunch, felt like…
Read More » - 22 AugustCulture
Whoever Loves the People, Refuses to Be a Hypocrite
Abdullah al-Baradouni, a Yemeni poet and intellectual, represented, and still represents, a cultural phenomenon that has lived on…
Read More » - 20 AugustCreative Visuals
Stories Scattered by War
When we break down the larger story, known as “the war in Yemen” into smaller stories, we end…
Read More » - 14 AugustLiterature
A Martyr’s (Thamoulh)
A Martyr’s (Thamoulh)[1] She passed the low fence… the sky was crying. Silence was everywhere, only the breeze…
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