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Opinion | Yemen Prays for Khashoggi, But Who Prays for Yemen? by Yazeed, Yemen

Author: By Yazeed, Yemen
Published: October 17, 2018
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Human Rights, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Tolerance, Yemen
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Tags: MiddleEast, news, saudi arabia, war, warandconflict, yemen

For years, and perhaps decades, none of the horrific stories of kidnapping, torturing or assassinating journalists has caught the world’s attention like the current story of the disappearance and possible assassination of a well-known Saudi journalist in Turkey last week. Jamal Khashoggi, who is a prominent Saudi journalist and a critic of the regime, made […]

Yemeni Muslims and Jews start family, by Mokhtar – Yemen

Published: March 6, 2018
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Identity, Tolerance, Yemen
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Tags: Islam, jews, judaism, lovemarriage, lovestory, marriage, mixmarriage, muslim, tradition, yemen

Around July 22, 2009, some Jewish families moved from Raidah district, Amran province, to Sawan area in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, the place where I used to live. I happened to be neighbors with a Yemeni guy called Abdurrahman who got married to a displace Jewish woman called Laiah. Raidah, a Yemeni village in Amran province […]

From Bad Encounters to Good Encounters by Omer, Yemen

Published: March 6, 2018
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Education, English, Human Rights, Identity, Yemen
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Tags: europe, fear, islamophobia, muslim, peacebuilding, racism, roommates, Stereotypes, understanding, yalacampaign, yemen, youth

This story is from the experience I had when I went to Germany for a one week academic program at Bremen University about four years ago. I had two roommates in my hotel room and we were all from different regions and different social and religious backgrounds. One was from Romania and the other was […]

How it all happened by Y. Yemen

Published: January 15, 2018
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
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Tags: #endviolence, Aden, AnsarAllah, civilwar, conflict, Sanaa, war, yalacampaign, yemen, youth

On March 21st, a few hundred men who mainly came from the province of Saada in Yemen, and who were surrounding Sana’a, the capital, overran the city and within a few hours controlled every public facility in it. The men were gathering around the city for few weeks before they made their way inside it. […]

Yemenites with No Religious Differences by Mokhtar Ramadan, Yemen

Published: November 23, 2017
Categories: in English, Human Rights, Identity, Tolerance, Yemen
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Tags: #thinkactyala, coexistence, family, inclusion, memories, peace, peacebuilding, religion, yemen, yemenite

On June 7, 2017, my grandfather from my mother side, who is now about 73 years old, came to my house and spent a couple of days with us: me and my family. We are from Al-Nazhah village, Ibb, Yemen. My village is about 150 km south of Sana’a, the Yemenite capital. In my village […]

The Weird Tradition by Salman Ayash, Yemen

Published: November 20, 2017
Categories: in Identity, Photo Essays, Travel, Yemen
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Tags: #thinkactyala, celebrations, Culture, discovertheregion, Eid, Eidaladha, photography, Villagelife, yalacampaign, yemen

Like many of my friends and relatives, I cannot celebrate Eid Al-Adha (the Islamic festival of sacrifice) away from my birthplace, a small mountainous village in Ibb governorate, Yemen. There, the Eid has a different feel as many traditional games and activities are undertaken by the villagers during Eid days. Giving one example, is our […]

It’s not too late to save war-torn Yemen by Yazeed Mohammed, Yemen

Published: February 1, 2017
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Friendship, Human Rights, Tolerance, Yemen
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Tags: activism, Civil War, Human rights, peace activism, yemen

Now it has been over 22 months, or almost 2 years since civil war broke in my country, Yemen, the poorest state in the Middle East. A war that savagely kidnapped the lives of thousands of civilians, as the latest UN reports confirmed the death toll to rise over 10,000, and wounded to about 50,000, […]

Art in Yemen by Amr, Yemen – photo essay –

Published: January 16, 2017
Categories: in Photo Essays
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Tags: Aden, Art, photography, yemen

I tried to take photos of the city but I wasn’t allowed to, I needed permission from officials so I thought of giving you a brief perspective of Aden city, a coastal southern city in Yemen, through paintings. Yesterday, there was an opening event in the poorly-funded city gallery so I found it an opportunity […]

The Breaking Point Maryam Al-Kubati, Yemen

Published: December 28, 2016
Categories: in English, Gender and LGBTQ
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Tags: empowerment, genderequality, girl, independence, woman, yemen

It was early September 2007; I had just received my exam results for my secondary school test (thnawiya alamma). I was overly excited for my future as my father had promised that I would be allowed to travel to Malaysia for my bachelor’s degree. I didn’t bother about the grades, after all, my father would […]

A Plea for the Skillful Abolition of the Eternal Feminine

Author: Ali, Yemen
Published: November 27, 2016
Categories: in Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Lebanon, Yemen
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Tags: yemen

I find many outcries in the Middle East a little difficult to classify and difficult to respond to. I mean, what are we actually trying to say? What do we want? Who are the bad guys? And what do we want to do about it? I think that before I give an opinion, I should […]

A new Chapter Amr Bazgifan, Yemen

Published: November 24, 2016
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Fall Semester 2016
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Tags: leavinghome, studies, university, yemen, YemenRevolution, YemenWar, youthdreams

2011, a turning point in my life. I, Amr Bazgifan, understood the meaning of death and reincarnation. The same day a door was opened for me, a book of sweet anecdotes and tales was closed forever. It was the same day and only a few minutes separating the phone call I received (informing me about […]

A Modern-Day Middle East Dialogue By Mohammed Al Adlani From Yemen And Khisal Al Baroudi From Syria

Published: November 2, 2016
Categories: in Current Events, English
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Tags: Interview, syria, war, yemen, youth

My name is Mohammed, I am from Yemen and, as part of the YaLa Academy’s Aileen Getty School of Citizen Journalism, I interviewed on June 7, 2016 another participant in the program – an awesome young woman from Syria. I got the impression she is suffering from a lot of pain given her difficult situation […]

A Ride with a QUIET driver by Yazeed Al Jeddawy from Yemen

Published: October 23, 2016
Categories: in English, Human Rights
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Tags: drive, nap, taxi, Travel, yemen

I remember very well how I did not sleep for two nights, and how I could barely take my exhausted body to reach the taxi station. It took me only about 15 minutes to reach to the station, where I was supposed to “ select” the means of transportation to travel from Sanaa, the capital […]

Video | Chance Meeting by Ali, Yemen

Author: Ali, Yemen
Published: November 19, 2015
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Development, Friendship, Identity, Life Style, Media, Videos, Yemen
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Tags: Video, YaLa Citizen Journalist, yemen

I’d been staying with my friend the past week. He works for a relief agency that operates in a very remote area. He has 20 high days every 3 months. When he’s in town, we usually paint it red…

Video | Ali, Yemen

Author: Ali, Yemen
Published: November 19, 2015
Categories: in Media, Videos, Yemen
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Tags: Video, YaLa Citizen Journalist, yemen

Watch as Ali from Yemen interviews some friends, and tells them to give a short description of him.

Ali, Yemen – photo essay –

Published: July 7, 2015
Categories: in Media, Photo Essays
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Tags: Culture, traditions, YaLa Photo Essay, yemen

There are these leaves that go by various traditional names and can cause mild euphoria and excitement. It’s a socializing drug used for centuries in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Yemen Needs Your Help, by Yahya Yacoob, from Yemen.

Published: March 25, 2015
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English
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Tags: education, extremism, peace activism, yala young leaders, yemen, youth

Yemen, Yemen, Yemen… a place that is filled with chaos, a place where everyone is trying to kill the other. A place where there is no security anymore. Even in the most religious places. A place where all memories are fading and being replaced by horrible facts. A place where no one is safe anymore. […]

Peace is a Life by Ahmed Bin Ahmed, Yemen

Published: February 8, 2015
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English
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Tags: gandhi, mother teresa, peace, peace activism, yala young leaders, yemen

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind” – Mahatma Gandhi Peace is what we all call for. It is a simple word that has a deep meaning. Sometimes, so many thoughts come to mind for making peace but there are not any ears to hear or even hands to help. […]

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