Yemen

Stolen, sold and left to rot

Inside the dark afterlife of Yemen’s ancient mummies From the towering heights of Hababa, an old historic village northwest of Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a, a man in his fifties...

Yemen’s Arabian jasmine is facing a dual threat

A fragrant flower worn at weddings, sold in city streets, and celebrated in song is becoming another casualty of Yemen’s overlapping crises. Across Yemen, Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac) is more...

A lament for Yemen’s cultural renaissance

How a rich civic culture was built in Yemen in the 1970s and after, and how that legacy has been dismantled since the Houthi takeover, as archives, institutions, and freedoms...

Following the Flowers in Yemen

A journalist follows Yemen’s nomadic beekeepers as they hold the pressures of climate, deforestation and war at bay Recommended by: Abdirahim Saeed The thorny Sidr tree, scattered throughout Yemen, is...

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