Before
there was Sana’a, there was Zafar. The modern
village of Zafar is nestled atop Husn Raydan in
the Ibb province, overlooking a fairy-tale
landscape of volcanic
outcroppings...
Since civil
war broke out in Somalia in the early 1990s, Yemen
has been a destination for those seeking sanctuary
from war and economic desperation in the Horn of
Africa. More recent conflicts, political repression,
and widening poverty have caused Ethiopians,
Eritreans, Iraqis and others to join these so-called
mixed migration flows. But Yemen is no paradise for
these migrants. In a country where unemployment is
rampant, “durable solutions” are hard to realize...
Merely finding Basateen is an adventure in itself.
Firstly, you drive down a seemingly endless
causeway, spanning the shallow bay spotted with
wading fishermen, their futahs hiked up to their
knees. Upon exiting, you find yourself in the
district of Sheikh Othman in Aden, passing carpet
and furniture shops, stores selling steel doors, and
auto workshops. You turn and go by a string of large
hotels for the Yemeni tourist on a budget.
The Vatican said banks should
look at the rules of Islamic finance to restore
confidence amongst their clients at a time of global
economic crisis.
“The ethical principles on
which Islamic finance is based may bring banks
closer to their clients and to the true spirit which
should mark every financial service,” the Vatican’s
daily official newspaper Osservatore Romano said on
March ...
Smuggling accounted for more than 30 percent of
Yemen’s foreign trade five years ago, including
counterfeited or prohibited products such as drugs.
It is considered to be the biggest problem in the
Yemeni economy,” according to officials from the
Customs Authority...
In 1956, an ambitious auto importer named Haj
Abobaker Bazara took a gamble. At that time, he
could not have realized that the decision he would
make would transform the landscape of his country.
He had been importing vehicles to Aden throughout
the 1950s with varying degrees of success when he
decided to pursue a little known Japanese
manufacturer named Toyota. Under British occupation
at that time, Aden thrived as an international port.
Vehicles from across the globe found their way to
the...
Méder
left his home in Budapest, Hungary on September 24,
2006, and sailed from the Port of Koper in Slovenia,
heading west. Prior to that, he was leading a quiet,
typical life in Hungary. He obtained his master’s
degree in Electrical
...
I’m
not always free with words,” said Salwa Muhammad Al
Matary with a laugh as we settled into her workshop
close to Al Jumhouri Hospital with two cups of
juice, “My art should speak for me.” ...
