Tag Archives: yemen

Portraits of Yemen

By popagandhi | Published: 2 February, 2010
Yemen is all over the news these days for all the wrong reasons. Those of you interested in that sort of thing would do well to read Waq al-Waq as a necessary companion blog to Western reporting on Yemen, which does tend to come across as uninformed and inaccurate most of the time. I still [...]
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iPods, Jambiyas and BarCamps

By popagandhi | Published: 21 November, 2009
BarCamp Singapore 4 is on tomorrow at Suntec Tower 3, 14th Floor, at IDA Singapore, from 9am to 6pm. Looks like there will be lots of interesting presentations. I’m on at 1.30pm, with “How to hack your own travel channel life”. I’ll be sharing about travel, writing, photography, the internet, and well, stuff. Sorry I [...]
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The Things We Eat

By popagandhi | Published: 24 April, 2009
More on Yemen. (I am now in Damascus, Syria! — I have to say where I am on my blog because my family is perennially lost about where I am! Hi mum! *waves*) Singapore’s small Arab community came hundreds of years ago as traders and they almost always came from Yemen. Not just Yemen, but [...]
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They Really Wanted a Photo

By popagandhi | Published: 15 April, 2009
Three weeks ago, in Yemen, somewhere between Aden and Zabid and near Taiz — it could have been shortly after Lahj — A small, fly-infested town. We were in a shared taxi driving near the Red Sea coast, and towards (I did not know yet) one of the hottest places in the world, Zabid. Hot [...]
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No, I Haven’t Been Kidnapped

By popagandhi | Published: 21 March, 2009
Just a quick update: I have left Yemen, my limbs are intact. I had a wonderful time in that country and I will go back again. Is it courting danger? No — I firmly believe the violence is sporadic and unplanned and could happen to any city/country at any time; and if you boycott an [...]
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