I follow Al Jazeera and BBC a few hours every day. Read the New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent, Gulf News [...]

I am closely following the news on Al Jazeera and BBC to see how things are developing in Egypt. I scent some changes in [...]

I really fell in love with Yemen. It had everything. Culture, wilderness, not a boring minute, history which is deeply felt and [...]

My third guest writer is Tricia Nellesen who I met at Sabris school in Sanaa, Yemen, half a year ago and she [...]

“Why do people join Al-Queda?”, my Arabic teacher in Yemen repeated my question to himself, “Well, because in most cases they don´t [...]

“Taxi, Taxi, taxi, we have to help this guy!” The old man shouting was, as always, Hussein, my landlord in Old Sanaa, [...]

“It´s is all haram (forbidden)!”, my new very good friend exclaimed with disappointment and threw out his hands, turned his new Mercedes [...]

I do get a fair amount of questions from readers who wish to know the development of my Arabic…..well, the truth is [...]

”You have to speak up” , Abdullah Rahman shouted, ”I am almost deaf after spending so much time standing next to cannons!” [...]

The evening muezzin is calling for prayer over Old Sanaa, dogs are barking, kids are playing football on the street below my [...]