Background: North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government adopted a Marxist orientation. The massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A southern secessionist movement in 1994 was quickly subdued. In 2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to a delimitation of their border.
February 1st 2008Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa After narrowly escaping from the "Palace Sayun Hotel", we arrived in the capitol of the Hadrawmat province, al-Mukallah. The only thing Eric and I had ever heard about Mukallah was that it smelled ho ... [full story]
January 26th 2008Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa Back by popular demand and an end to laziness, here is my first blog post of the new year. So so much has happened to me in the last 42 days (that's what my blog counter tells me anyway). I'm going ... [full story]
December 15th 2007Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa Al-Hamduallah. See you later fat boy: once I switch to a class devoid of retards and you move out, I won't have to see you every fucking day. If I'm willing to invest some effort I might never have ... [full story]
December 13th 2007Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa The trilateral root system and the ten verb patterns in Arabic are the coolest thing ever.
It's like the language was explicitly designed to have defineate and consistent patterns for creating me ... [full story]
December 5th 2007Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa Bombing of US Navy vessels, kidnappings of foreign tourists, tribal warfare including car bombings. This genre of headline had a lot of people asking, "why the hell are you going to Yemen?" I initiall ... 24 photos[full story]
December 10th 2007Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa The political situation in Yemen has been heating up over the past few weeks. There were sit ins and demonstrations in Aden recently, because the citizens claim that South Yemen is being ignored by S ... [full story]
December 4th 2007Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa The two most pressing issues in my life right now:
What's my direction in life?
Man friend? ... [full story]
December 2nd 2007Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa There's an old joke among those who study Arabic as a second language. "Every word in Arabic means what it refers to, its opposite, and camel." I didn't think it was that funny until tonight, when I ... [full story]
December 1st 2007Middle East » Yemen » Sanaa Today, Yemenis celebrate the departure of the British from Aden in 1962 with qat chewing, chatting, wiling away the afternoon, and other activities that go on every other day of the year. This indepe ... [full story]
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