I’m spending my last evening in Yemen on the roof of my hotel overlooking the ancient city of Tiaz, enjoying the salty breeze from the Red Sea, and listening to the call to prayer as it is echoes across the city. Sitting here, as twilight approaches and bathes the city in a gorgeous warm light, [...]

Venturing deeper into the volatile seas off the coast of Yemen towards Somalia and Djibouti, fishermen like Abdalla Abrahem must spend more time and travel further into these troubled waters to find fish and support his family. Earning at best $10 a day, Abrahem and the rest of the people in the small village of [...]

At first I thought there was some sort of continuing problem in Yemen where many men had extremely large growths sticking out from their cheek. So abnormally large they are, if it were on both checks it would it would look cartoonishly exaggerated, like a squirrel.
I knew what qat was well before coming to Yemen, [...]

“This is the first food I’ve eaten in four days,” Habiba Mohammad Hassan, a 17 year old Somali tells me as we wedged ourselves into the back of a truck with over 40 other refugees and opens a packet of high energy biscuits. Hassan, and 150 others, just spent the last two days crossing the [...]

I arrived in Yemen yesterday with  contradictory mental ideas of the country. It’s the place where Noah’s Ark was launched and Osama bin Landen’s father was born. It is a country where Westerners are kidnapped by tribesmen but rarely harmed, where suicide bombers struck the USS Cole, where young women dance and chew qat with [...]

It arrived just in time - my passport that is. I am part of the camp that says, “what can go wrong DOES go wrong” it’s just a matter of time before odds catch up with you. I have heard too many horror stories about passports getting lost in transit and the hoops people have [...]

I’m back from being on the road for the past month and am still blown away from such an incredible and diverse trip. Starting off the trip getting to spend a week with Linds in Paris was just perfect. Just as us east-coaster’s were ready for spring to arrive, so were the Parisians; we hit [...]