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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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