Born to be a poet, al-Maqaleh lived as one and never paid heed to anything else. He maintained a simple life, protective of the poet within him, and therefore lived to safeguard himself from the seas of raging words and blind slogans.
Yumna al-Arashi's photographs portray power, grace and beauty without showing the skin or the face of her subjects.
Al-Ahdal has published novels and short story collections that tackle social hypocrisy, false religiosity, the situation of women and the disastrous political failure of successive governments in Yemen since unification in 1990.
An Exclusive Interview with Award Winning Novelist, Short Story Writer and Playwright Wajdi al-Ahdal.
Prominent Yemenis from various background and fields share their thoughts on matters related to Yemen, being a citizen and what ‘Madaniya’ means to them.
An artist traveling through time and space to present his feelings, his imagination and his protests.
An Exclusive Interview with Yemeni Singer Methal.
Mohammed al-Munaifi and I met in one of the neighborhoods in Taiz. The 11-year-old puts his earphones into his small ears and turns up the volume to watch cartoons. He told me that he does this to escape the sound of missiles that the militias have been dropping on Taiz since their takeover of the city and its surroundings.
The difference between qat and sesbania is that sesbania spreads unsystematically and without human intervention.
Tea was brought to Aden by Indians in the 19th century. Some historians have mentioned that Adenis took eagerly to tea as soon as it arrived, quickly adopting it as a daily beverage.
Many ornithologists consider Yemen to be the only country in the Arabian Peninsula where a group of Asian houbara are both endemic and pass through as migratory birds through the Red Sea.
A Short Story by Atiaf al-Wazir
A country’s cultural, economic and political circumstances play a part in women’s progress. It dictate how conservative or liberal her verbalized thoughts are, and how much of her rights she is able to retain.
In a time when 82 per cent of Yemenis need humanitarian assistance, various initiatives organized by university students in Taiz aim to offer a glimpse of hope for many families who have lost their daily bread.
In contemporary Yemeni literature there is an inclination towards humanist didacticism and education. Humanism as a concept has long been used in the West, and has had different meanings depending on those who have adopted it and the era it was used in.
After years of stagnation and interruption in theater, the director and playwright Amr Gamal along with a group of youths is hoping to revive the theater in Yemen, and return its pulse.
A documentary photography project by Thana Faroq
After being driven out of the nightmare of a terrible war, Aden is slowly restoring itself to its prewar state and building the stability and peace.
Prominent Yemenis from various background and fields share their thoughts on matters related to Yemen, being a citizen and what ‘Madaniya’ means to them.
Yemeni women who do not wear the hijab and abaya face many difficulties, despite the presence of many notable female figures in the public sphere who have removed the hijab.
In the world of the twenty-first century there are those who imagine that they bear only one identity: a pure, eternal and unchangeable one, which faces the threat of annihilation by the ‘enemy other’.
The art form rooting itself in Yemeni streets with campaigns directed at the people of the country, commenting on important issues on a daily basis.
Intellectuals are the most solid element of civil society, and the striking force that can take Yemen out of the cycle of conflicts and wars, to a path of peace, prosperity and development...
Yemeni women have managed to enter the business field and have quickly been able to prove their abilities despite the country’s traditions and customs...
A documentary photography project by Rahman Taha.
An authority, borne of his poetry, quickly made him a folk icon – someone to symbolize their hopes and dreams.
Prominent Yemenis from various background and fields share their thoughts on matters related to Yemen, being a citizen and what ‘Madaniya’ means to them.
An author whose work defies cross-continental taboos.
The first Yemeni organization to ever promote liberalism in a conservative community.
Yemen’s first online magazine on art, culture and civil society: a manifestation of a particular kind of hope.
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