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"Asabone"

Kevin Rushby

 

 

 

Kevin Rushby taught English in Sudan, Malaysia and Yemen before becoming a full time author and photographer. He is the author of "Eating the Flowers of Paradise: One Man's Journey through Ethiopia and Yemen" (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999).

 

Jambiyah: the Yemeni dagger worn with a belt stitched in gold. The horn handle is decroated with old coins and silver studs.     Al-Hajarah: a village in Jebel Haraz viewed from the south-west in late afternoon.     Bab al-Yemen: the main gate to the old city of Sanaa with the twin minarets of the Great Mosque on the horizon.

 

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