Yemen

Fishermen fight to bring in
the most lucrative catch from the morning haul, from the colourful
fishing port of al-Hudayda on the Red Sea coast, to the lively fish
market on the harbour.
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Dawn light strikes the mountaintop village of Shihara in northern
Yemen, never seized by foreign soldiers during two Ottoman occupations
due to its precarious and inaccessible perch.
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Superbly preserved Sabean script on a
stone tablet amongst ruins in Ma'rib, former heart of the Queen of
Sheba's Saba empire in southern Arabia Felix.
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UNESCO world heritage classification
hasn't spared the locals living in the walled old city of Zabid from
destitution. Next to this souk stands one of the oldest mosques
in the world, originally constructed during the Prophet Muhammed's
lifetime and a bastion of higher education in medieval times.
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The gorgeous site of Jibla,
another former capital. The mountainous terrain in western Yemen
has led to its nickname as the roof of Arabia, or the Switzerland of
the Arabian peninsula.

A self proclaimed imam in Jibla begs for a
picture to be taken of him, followed by aggressive harrassment for a
tip, not unlike almost all of the kids in touristed sites in Yemen.

One of the islamic cemeteries in Tarim, a
lethargic town in the Wadi Hadramawt most famous for the Indonesian
styles of some of its mansions, brought back home by Hadrami traders
who had worked in southeast Asia.
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Woodwork on a door in Shibam,
Wadi Hadramawt.
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Shibam has been dubbed the
Manhattan of the desert, for the intense concentraition of mud
skyscrapers within the
confines of its walled city. Concrete was first introduced into
the Wadi Hadramawt following the Yemeni war of reunification in 1994.
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