Happy Birthday, Baby.

(We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this small but significant status update in the life of a dutiful little mommy and a beautiful little man called Little Mister Jibran.) Little Mister Jibran is two years old today. 2010. Barely a few weeks old and registering the world. By sleeping. 2011. Oh the eyes … Continue reading »

Yeah. I’m politically incorrect.

Apparently it’s deeply important for everyone to be a bleeding heart liberal to be famous nowadays. Not that I blame them. When you watch shows that star witty people like Jon Stewart against demonizing crazy people like Wolf Blitzer and you’ve got genuine looking people protesting on Wall Street against ‘greed’ whereas swagger-filled scumbag billionaires … Continue reading »

Randomly housed.

In all fairness, hindsight is what makes Yemen perfect. That’s what happens with most situations. You look back on the ugliest of days and somehow the ugliness tends to seem fainter and you end up wishing for the ‘good old days’ to return because of the fact that they are gone for good. Especially when … Continue reading »

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I used to think that that smiley face posted above only was worthy of posts that had a “Yemen” tag. Not anymore. I actually miss Yemen right now more than anything. I miss the regularity of life, of things, the consistency. The times. I knew what time Shumaila Hari opened, what time was good for … Continue reading »

Confessions of a Winter Nerd.

Does anyone remember that old hymn-typa thing that used to come before NTM began its transmission? Pyaar bhara har aik ishaara, pyaara us ka har nazaara. Jis ne zameen par pyaar utaara, woh khud hoga kitna pyaara. See that’s how I like to see God. Mainly because as a child, that’s the way you’re supposed … Continue reading »

The Chill.

Some guy just hit my husband’s car and demanded that he be paid. The guy who hit the car. Go figure. Two days ago while waiting to pay at the fruits and veggies’ counter at the resident grocery store, two men, viciously chewing Qat, cut in line in front of me and didn’t really notice … Continue reading »

Once upon a time in Sana’a …

Today marks my one year in the land of the forgotten. Did I know, when I landed here on the bright morning of March 2009, that one year later I’d be writing for one of their most popular magazines and would have traveled to their exotic beaches and also have a baby here? Of course … Continue reading »

Alrighty then.

The Yemen Today website has finally been updated and upgraded and you can find both the articles I’ve contributed here. One and Two. I will continue to contribute so you can keep checking every month (or me being me will probably link it for you here every month). Leave a comment and feel free to … Continue reading »

Sleepless in Sana’a.

People ask me why I don’t have a job. Or why I haven’t thought about working after I got married. It was only after an incidence or two that I learnt that when I give them an offhand response, they think like all men, my husband is a sexist chauvinist pig who likes women to … Continue reading »

Bring on the wheezies.

It’s that time of the year again. One half of the population I know is getting married, the other half is producing children, and a very minor population that is leftover is getting the flu. Right now I’m in the minority, considering the past year, and dammit the cold is a bitch. I hail from … Continue reading »