Archive for the 'Yemen' Category
Yemen’s Houthi rebellion and Bani Hushaish: what’s really going on?
Monday, June 16th, 2008Since 2004 the Yemeni government have fought several wars in Yemen’s northernmost governorate Sa’da against a movement calling itself The Believing Youth, mostly known as ‘The Houthis’ after its late founder Badr ad-Din al-Houthi. According to the government, the movement is aiming to re-establish the Shia-Zaydi imamate that ruled Yemen until the republican revolution of […]
Yemen’s Failing Democracy
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Another article written by me and published in the brand new magazine ‘The Arab‘, this time about the political crises in Yemen.
Click HERE to read.
The Sound of Yemen
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Article published in the brand new magazine ‘The Arab‘ about my last experience before leaving Yemen during Eid 2007.
Click HERE to read.
A Stranger in her own City
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Last week I saw the crazies and most outrageous documentary (by Yemeni standards) I have ever seen from Yemen. The 30-minute film by Khadija as-Salami follows a 13 year old girl who refuses to wear the veil and is so cheeky, quick-witted, and happy that she somehow gets away with it, at least for a […]
More pictures from Yemen
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Have added a new gallery with a mix of pictures from Yemen from July to October:
http://torstein.worren.info/images/travel/2007-yemen_various/index.html
Ramadan in Yemen
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Yes, yet again the holy month of Ramadan has arrived, and Yemen, like all Muslim countries, goes bananas as people try to abstain from food, drink, smoking and thoughts of sex from sunrise until sunset. The idea is to have an idea of how poor people who regularly starve live their lives and thus be […]