Sep Oct 2017
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30 Oct 2017
30 Oct 2017
There are musicians whose names are associated with the names of their cities, and cities whose names are associated with the names of musicians. Ahmed bin Ahmed Qassem is one of those musicians. And the place most closely associated with his name is the city of Aden.
30 Oct 2017
29 Oct 2017
29 Oct 2017
A Short Story by Asad Sary. Translated to English by Eyad Houssami.
29 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017
The memory of poetry holds thousands of names, but only a few still vividly embody the meaning of freedom, and their poetry remains charged with the glory of the word and its beauty.
27 Oct 2017
26 Oct 2017
26 Oct 2017
A Photo Essay by Mohammed al-Tawiji
26 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017
Mocha was built 75 kilometers from Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, in a very dry area. Seasonal winds blow from the north six months a year, and from the south for the remaining six months.
25 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017
Reflections of a Yemeni Artist’s Resurrected View of the World Through her Little Coffee Cup’s Surface.
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017
Prominent Yemenis from various background and fields share their thoughts on matters related to Yemen, being a citizen and what ‘Madaniya’ means to them.
20 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017
Visiting public spaces or traveling to other governorates is no longer easy for all Yemenis. There are many obstacles faced by Yemeni citizens. One of the main obstacles is the insecurity.
19 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017
17 Oct 2017
Young Yemeni artist’s video music project collaboration celebrating Yemeni nights out.
17 Oct 2017
15 Oct 2017
15 Oct 2017
al-Qahirah Castle sits on Mount Sabr overlooking the city of Taiz, and stands as an additional element to the beauty of the natural landscape that surrounds the city. The castle was mentioned in the writings of many travelers and historians, including Ibn Battuta (1377) and Yaqout al-Hamawi (1229).
15 Oct 2017
13 Oct 2017
13 Oct 2017
Born to be a poet, al-Maqaleh lived as one and never paid heed to anything else. He maintained a simple life, protective of the poet within him, and therefore lived to safeguard himself from the seas of raging words and blind slogans.
13 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017
Yumna al-Arashi’s photographs portray power, grace and beauty without showing the skin or the face of her subjects.
12 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017
9 Oct 2017
Al-Ahdal has published novels and short story collections that tackle social hypocrisy, false religiosity, the situation of women and the disastrous political failure of successive governments in Yemen since unification in 1990.
9 Oct 2017
8 Oct 2017
8 Oct 2017
An Exclusive Interview with Award Winning Novelist, Short Story Writer and Playwright Wajdi al-Ahdal.
8 Oct 2017
6 Oct 2017
6 Oct 2017
Prominent Yemenis from various background and fields share their thoughts on matters related to Yemen, being a citizen and what ‘Madaniya’ means to them.
6 Oct 2017
3 Oct 2017
3 Oct 2017
An artist traveling through time and space to present his feelings, his imagination and his protests.
3 Oct 2017
september 2017
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29 Sep 2017
29 Sep 2017
An Exclusive Interview with Yemeni Singer Methal.
29 Sep 2017
25 Sep 2017
25 Sep 2017
Mohammed al-Munaifi and I met in one of the neighborhoods in Taiz. The 11-year-old puts his earphones into his small ears and turns up the volume to watch cartoons. He told me that he does this to escape the sound of missiles that the militias have been dropping on Taiz since their takeover of the city and its surroundings.
25 Sep 2017
22 Sep 2017
22 Sep 2017
The difference between qat and sesbania is that sesbania spreads unsystematically and without human intervention.
22 Sep 2017
17 Sep 2017
17 Sep 2017
Tea was brought to Aden by Indians in the 19th century. Some historians have mentioned that Adenis took eagerly to tea as soon as it arrived, quickly adopting it as a daily beverage.
17 Sep 2017
10 Sep 2017
10 Sep 2017
Many ornithologists consider Yemen to be the only country in the Arabian Peninsula where a group of Asian houbara are both endemic and pass through as migratory birds through the Red Sea.
10 Sep 2017