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Yemen

Textiles and Heritage – Yemen Fashion Weaves Past and Present

By Layla Al-Hadhrami ~ Wear on fabric-made clothes is to inherit centuries of heritage. In the nook and cranny of Yemen, fabrics are uttering determination and identity. Wherever you walk through souks of a...

Nature’s Remedy: Applying Yemeni Mountain Peoples’ Health through Nature and Tradition

By Amal Al-Sanani ~ As you ride across Yemeni valleys and mountains, you cannot help but notice that the inhabitants of a place like this have learned to appreciate nature — nature that...

Nature’s Remedy: Applying Yemeni Mountain Peoples’ Health through Nature and Tradition

By Amal Al-Sanani ~ As you ride across Yemeni valleys and mountains, you cannot help but notice that the inhabitants of a place like this have learned to appreciate nature — nature that is a force of energy, beauty, and health in the guise of time-honored healing lore. Banking on centuries of experience, and much less on the plants that cover their world, Yemen mountain wise women, herbalists, and healers combine nature and tradition to create a holistic health. Among them are a healer conducting traditional rituals as a means of paying tribute to the healing power of the earth. The native herbs, not just prized for their medic and...

Moka to Mandee – The Joys of Yemen’s Turn on the World Stage

By Amina Al-Hakimi ~ Yemen, home to its rich history and shining culture, is finally venturing into another lucrative aspect of its existence: that of...

Back to the Future – Yemen’s Architectural Heritage Gains New Converts

By Hassan Al-Mahri ~ Heritage is not history— it's a country's soul, an eye over its heritage, identity, and culture which lived through millennia. In Yemen, a country renowned for its beautiful houses, that soul has been lost in...

Songs of Sana’a – How Yemen’s Musicians Save Cultural Heritage

By Samira Al-Hamdi ~ Beneath Sana'a streets, and fallen mudbrick minarets, a revolution but concealed—no gun, no politics, beat and memory. There are qanbūs ripened, traditional dialect poetry lyricism, Arabic music heritage maintained. In a country whose recent history has been so filled with war, music of the capital shames otherwise: self-respecting, defiant, cultural renaissance. All of war, all of the devastation war and globalization surrounding it is not managing to bring the Yemeni people back to their music a lot...

Middle East Jewel of Culture – Why Yemen is Middle East Jewel of Culture

By Layla Al-Sabahi ~ Lies beneath the Peninsula Yemen, a nation whose elegance and poise have their origins in stories of strife. Yet to the adventurous traveler, Yemen opens her arms in welcome and...

Songs of Sana’a – How Yemen’s Musicians Save Cultural Heritage

By Samira Al-Hamdi ~ Beneath Sana'a streets, and fallen mudbrick minarets, a revolution but concealed—no gun, no politics, beat and...

Songs of Sana’a – How Yemen’s Musicians Save Cultural Heritage

By Samira Al-Hamdi ~ Beneath Sana'a streets, and fallen mudbrick...