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Wedding ceremony chair - Shibam, Haraz Mountains, Yemen
You Shall Be Named Muhammad
June 25th 2010 How did I end up here? Sitting in a mosque in Sana’a during evening prayer, I am the only non-Muslim amongst the 500 men who are standing, kneeling and praying in ordered lines. From my squatted position in the centre of the mosque, the men clothed in traditional Yemeni garments tower over me, as their gentle reverential and sonorous iterations fall upon my ears.
This experience commenced a f
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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 governm... ... read more COMING SOON HOUSE ADVERTISING ads_leader_photo_bottom
