The Dream of Perpetual Motion - From Marib - the Sabean Capital to Carantania 1-5
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-24 08:42:35 -0700 | arts-culture-news
PAR ONE: GARDEN OF COSMOS I understand Yemen from position as syntheses and "dreams", as an oasis, in flow of world events. A similar position - that of "oasis" in world affairs, have Central Europe (Slovenia/Austria), Afghanistan. ..If the history...
Once Upon a Revolution…. Poetry and Photos by Raghda Gamal from Yemen
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2013-02-07 06:59:21 -0800 | arts-culture-news
Yemeni history goes back to the very dawn of civilization. Yemen, however, was fully unified politically in 1990, into the Republic of Yemen. The 1990s saw important international and regional changes. Yemenis took advantage of them and on 22nd May...
The Scent of Rain and Lighting
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-12-06 06:05:41 -0800 | arts-culture-news
Sana`a was born in September so as to die in November. Then again in May and on October. On first of January and second December. Do you know how this dead Sana`a died? And when it will live again. Like...
Amir - A Short Story
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-10-22 07:42:50 -0700 | arts-culture-news
What can I say about a goldfish that died. That it was my companion, confidant, a pillar of strength. Curious and immensity of tenderness. I am sitting here and thinking of the evenings we watched the TV, I in my...
Tower of Dreams, Attar of Roses
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-10-22 07:16:41 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Summers in Sana’a is a season of dust. Bougainvillea are the only flower I care for and when I see them tumbled along the city fences and walls, fully exploded, nodding at the ground, hanging their heads but not yet...
In the Land of Spices on Wednesday Night
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-10-21 07:33:37 -0700 | arts-culture-news
A city breaking loose from within. Cars, movement, people.... an uninterrupted motion of thoughts and ideas. Music rubbing into walls. Lights coming on, and later out on the street. Laughter and obscenities climbing from the throats. Lassos falling short of...
Moons among the Stars
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-11-02 19:09:28 -0700 | arts-culture-news
An Arab saying has it, tomorrow never comes. One has only today. Live for today. Tomorrow is tomorrow and God only knows what will bring. AbdulWahab Ahmed is above all soldier! A true picture from our childhood. Brave, alert, fearless,...
Two Seasons of Rain
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-10-17 04:03:15 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Before the beginning there was chaos. All sounds but none heard. All shapes but none seen. The winds and clouds, their voices the rolling thunder. Between lush hills and fertile plains, where flowers bloomed ten months every year. And two...
I Remember Nothing
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-09-26 09:44:01 -0700 | arts-culture-news
I shall begin with the Creator of clouds, she begun to tell. I will speak about Him who formed the clouds and filled them with water. Added the rising of winds, the bringing of rains. And cold. About Him who...
What News From Those Sands Whiter – Journey to the Yemeni Sands
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-09-24 04:23:39 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Journey to the Yemeni Sands Yemeni eastern and southern governorates, AlJawf, Marib, Shabwa and Hadhramawt virtually surround the Sands, the AlRub AlKhali desert, or Empty Quarter, the great desert of Southern Arabia. There the Yemeni governorates fade into winds, draught...
Journey to the mountains of Barat
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sākin Hazm :: Yemen | updated 2012-09-22 09:10:44 -0700 | arts-culture-news
I have been visiting Barati mountains at the outskirts of AlRub AlKhali during a span of five years. This is not such a long time if one thinks in terms of relationships to places and people. But we seem to...
DID YOU KNOW STONE IS MADE OF FROZEN WHITE CLOUDS
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-11-02 19:05:19 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Traveling with clear power in the sun. Sunlight entered my hands for the purple blue water. I yearn for a sound that is missing. Life seems so fragile, and all its shadows are seasonal, including pain. I saw how my...
Remember to Forget - a Poem
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-08-12 06:12:42 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Years after wars, dry seasons, sand storms, wild seas, and seasons plenty of rains when baskets were full of grapes, gold brown dates, melons, papayas and mangos, he phoned her. Peace be with you, said the voice. She immediately recognized...
Thousand Cups Of Mokha Coffee
Posted by: Irena Knehtl
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2012-08-11 05:16:18 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Jibal Nugum raped in mist and clouds. The sounds of laziness rose from the sleepy city. In the ochre dusk of a walled garden there was a growing crowd. Those flaking walls and under those dancing lights. Sometimes in Sana`a,...
Antiques trading
Posted by: wesamalhakimi
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2012-03-05 12:53:27 -0800 | arts-culture-news
I'm selling Yemeni antiques here in Yemen and I'm doing my online trading
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