Yemen Before the Storm These photos were taken in 1999 before the bombing of the USS Cole Battleship in the port of Aden in Yemen, as well as before the tragedy at the World Trade Center in New York. Yemen at this time was a beautiful and welcoming place.

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

YEMEN | Thursday, 29 November 2012 | Views [498] | View Larger Image

A villager enters a tiny shaft of sun that cuts through the tiny streets of the old Medina. This image could be seen as an homage to the surrealist painter De Chirico and his solitary figures set in strange and perhaps foreboding urban landscapes.

Dawn break on the mountaintop village of Shihara, bringing a welcome warmth to the ancient stone houses and the people inside.

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A momentary reflection of a traditional Yemeni towerhouse and it's political posters in a puddle over the cobblestones. Political posters of President Saleh can be seen, a man whose own world would be turned upside down during the Arab Spring.

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Yemen Before the Storm These photos were taken in 1999 before the bombing of the USS Cole Battleship in the port of Aden in Yemen, as well as before the tragedy at the World Trade Center in New York. Yemen at this time was a beautiful and welcoming place.

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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