Archive for the 'Yemen' Category
The Officer’s Club
Sunday, July 8th, 2007The title of this post gives a feel of times long gone when a colonial administrator could lounge under a parasol, a gin tonic in his hand, and know that the Empire was safe and sound, as the sun would never set. Nothing could be further from the truth at Sana’a’s Officers’ Club.
The Club is […]
The politics of foreigners in Yemen
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007For the first time since 1998 foreigners have been killed on purpose in Yemen. Whereas kidnapping of foreigners was everyday business throughout most of the 1990s when more than 100 were kidnapped, this was mostly in order to pressure the government to free jailed tribesmen or implement social projects in peripheral areas. This meant that […]
Patience, patience
Saturday, June 30th, 2007It’s funny being back in Yemen. Nothing much seems to have changed other than the number of foreigners. They’re everywhere these days, especially at the language institutes. It’s quite a change from my first time here in 2002 when we were about six students at CALES – my school. Even though most of the passenger […]