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	<title>The Bohemian and The Bulbul: Journeys in the Middle East (and further east), by Mira Baz &#187; Qat</title>
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		<title>Should they be closed: Sufi influence on Yemeni Jewish poetry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you watched MTV in the late 1980s, you might remember her in the music video as Ofra Haza (1957 – 2000), the Israeli pop singer who gained international fame during that decade. But even if this doesn’t ring a bell, chances are you may have heard her hit “Im nin’ alu” (Should They Be Closed) playing in a Yemeni taxi.

“It’s a Yemeni Jewish song,” a taxi driver once explained.

Shabazi’s poetry was characterized by mystical themes and the new strophic form that broke away from the traditional Andalusian poetic style which had been dominant for five centuries. One study argues that this shift in poetic style could have been due to the influence of the <em>humayni muwashah</em> poems of Yemeni Sufis.]]></description>
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		<title>A Yemeni woman and a bread basket</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yemeni women usually sell the different kinds of bread they <a href="http://www.mirabaz.com/wordpress/photo-journal/breadmaker/">make</a> on "restaurant alley" near Souq al-Milh, the spice souq in the <a href="http://www.mirabaz.com/wordpress/articles/travelling-through-time-in-old-sanaa/">Old City</a>, Sanaa, Yemen. <a hre="http://www.mirabaz.com/wordpress/photo-journal/a-yemeni-woman-and-a-bread-basket/">(more)</a>]]></description>
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