Yemen Journey: A personal narrative of my life in Yemen

The series Yemen Journey is a narrative of my life in Yemen – over eight years of ups and downs, lots of happiness but many frustrations as well. For better or worse, Yemen changed me for good. Each post somewhat stands alone, but it’s best to read the posts in sequence.

1. Of Yemeni rest stops and a Lebanese woman

2. A teacher, a student

3. Najeeb, the lovelorn romantic

4. Amal, the betrayed wife

5. Baroque pearl (1): The adventures of being a woman in Yemen

6. Baroque pearl (2): The adventures of being a woman in Yemen

7. In search of God in Yemen?

8. Seduction and forgetting in a Yemeni wedding

9. A young girl in Taiz

10. Death threats, pride and prejudice in Yemen

11. Bread and salt

12. In Yemen, a girls’ day in

13. Looking for a husband in Yemen

14. A revolution remembered

15. Between Beirut and Sanaa: a love affair

16. Where every man has three guns

17. The jinn doctor is in

18. How do you pack your life into a suitcase?