tabsir.net: Beyond al-Qaeda, the real Yemen
The fertile valley of al-Ahjur by Abubakr Al-Shamahi, Common Ground News,August 20, 2013 Sana’a, Yemen – This month’s unidentified threat that led to the closure of the United States embassy and...
View Articletabsir.net: Death at the mosque
Blast at al-Taqwa Mosque in Tripoli, Lebanon The mosque in Islam is known as a place of prayer. Since the very inception of Islam it has also been a place of death, indeed murder. It is reported that...
View Articletabsir.net: The Battle for Baghdad
How to Invade Iraq: The Mongol Way By Peter Konieczny [Paper given at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Western Michigan University (2007) and online here.] When I began...
View Articletabsir.net: Cairo in 1910
The Qalawun Mosque in Cairo, built in the early 14th century These color photographs of Cairo from 1910 are truly amazing and have been circulating the Internet. You can see them all here. Beggars and...
View Articletabsir.net: Postcards from old Aden #7
and yet more camels of old Aden … to be continued… for #6, click here.
View Articletabsir.net: War is still hell
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, ca 1500 War is hell and it was long before General Sherman figured that out. It helps to remember exactly what “hell” means. In 1741 the Protestant...
View Articletabsir.net: Making Music in Yemen
Photograph by Ali Abulohoom The Yemeni Turbi by Ali Abulohoom, Yemen Times, August 22, 2013 When he was 8 years old, Fuad Al-Qotari found a piece of wood lying around while playing with some...
View Articletabsir.net: No more abuse
The image of Muslims portrayed in the Western media is overwhelmingly negative. From Al Qaeda to Hezbullah to ranting Iranian clerics to the Muslim Brotherhood, it would seem that Muslims are only...
View Articletabsir.net: More Yemeni Photographs
The People’s Mosque in Sanaa; photographed by Turki Al-Mohaiya There is an extraordinary Facebook album entitled “So you think you ‘ve seen Yemen?” that is well worth visiting. Here are a few of the...
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