- YEMEN WEBDATE
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- YEMEN ART
- Abdulwahab Muhammad Al-Sayrafi
- c/o Tim MacIntosh-Smith
- POB 10731
- Sanaa, Yemen
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- Mr. Al-Sayrafi was born in 1968 in the Dawud Quarter, heart of the old city of Sanaa. For many generations his family has been the principal alabaster cutters in Yemen, making windows for dwellings in the capital and as far away as Rida‘. By the 1960s, however, imports of cheap coloured glass had killed off the alabaster industry, which is extremely labour intensive at both mining and cutting stages. Abdulwahab has now revived the craft of his ancestors, working on restoration projects and promoting the reintroduction of alabaster in new building. At the same time, his lighting range which has been called "sculpture in light" -- reinterprets an ancient and preculiarly Yemeni tradition for a wider, contemporay world.
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