Woman from Yemen

Dear readers, Thank you for your time, your feedback and your honesty.  They have been invaluable.  After many years, I'm afraid I mus...

Photo by Raymond Lidal, May 2013 in al-Haima al-Dakhliya First published in Muftah Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you, Th...

After a year and a half of being inactive or semi-active on social media, mainly due to a phase of reflection and depression, I began to twe...

Let me start off by saying this is NOT a research paper. It’s simply the first part of a longer rant. I want to get all the negative energy...

" To rich people it must seem that the ordinary little people -- perhaps because their lives are more rarefied, deprived of the oxyge...

في ذكرى شهداء وجرحى الثورة في فبراير ٢٠١١، نصب المحتجون خياما خارج بوابات جامعة صنعاء مطالبين “بإسقاط النّطام”. يوما بعد يوم تضاع...

Do you remember Change Square?  We certainly do. Four years ago this month, protesters set up tents outside the gates of Sana’a U...

Last week, my young cousin in the second grade ran inside after an explosion shook the windows. “I don’t mind when the house shakes, I ju...

صنعاء سمفونيّة خالدة، يستلهم الناس نشيدها الخالد على مختلف أذواقهم: علماء، شعراء، فنانون.  دائما تعطي، ودائما تمنح في أي ظرف كان نعيما أ...

Photo by Mona Raidan al-Mutawakel “Come with me,” said my father after he got ready and changed into his grey pants and oversized black...