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  • The brilliant white minaret of the Al Janad Mosque (the oldest in Yemen, dating to roughly 628 AD), stretches up beyond the courtyard, piercing a deep blue sky, in Taiz, Yemen.
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  • The brilliant white minaret of the Al Janad Mosque (the oldest in Yemen, dating to roughly 628 AD), stretches up beyond the courtyard, piercing a deep blue sky, in Taiz, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_1823Yemen.jpg
  • A trio of young schoolgirls poses in the hijabs and black abeyas of modest Islamic dress for Yemen, at the edge of a mountainside road in Taiz, Yemen, against the backdrop of a pale blue sky dusted with clouds.
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  • Gasoline pumps at a station of the National Petroleum Company of Yemen along the highway north from Aden, in the state of Taiz, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
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  • A view across the bay that the port city of Aden, Yemen sits on in the Gulf of Aden, giant images of former President Ali Saleh adorning the top of the Bank of Yemen building, beneath a pale blue sky dusted with clouds.
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  • Miniature domes crown the roof of the Al Janad hammam, adjacent to the mosque in Taiz, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky flecked with clouds, the oldest mosque in Yemen, dating to 628 A.D.
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  • The waves of the Arabian Sea crash against the rocky shoreline of Socotra, Yemen, forming a tidal pool beneath rugged mountains, a pale blue sky above, on Socotra, Yemen.
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  • A series of political stickers on a worn carved wooden door in Ibb, Yemen, juxtapose Iraq's former president Saddam Hussein and Yemen's former president Ali Saleh, both widely considered dictators.
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  • A wheel cover on a National Water Resources Authority vehicle advocates for rain water collection to address Yemen's ongoing water insecurity, in Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • The mud brick housing complexes of one of Yemen's three Shibam towns cling to the base of a rugged escarpment, an arid plain stretching to the distance, beneath the stone town of Kawkaban, Yemen.
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  • The elaborate rooflines, brickwork and arched stained glass windows of the stone town of Kawkaban, Yemen, before it was heavily damaged in Yemen's civil war in a 2016 air strike.
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  • Decorative embroidery adorns a black abeya, the garment meant to enforce women's modesty for adherents of Islam in Yemen, displayed in Tarim, Yemen.
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  • Groups of women wearing the black abeyas of Islamic modesty traditions in Yemen, move past the towering, sunlit, mud brick and cinderblock housing complexes of Tarim, Yemen.
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  • The mud brick housing complexes of one of Yemen's three Shibam towns cling to the base of a rugged escarpment, an arid plain stretching to the distance, beneath the stone town of Kawkaban, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_1116Yemen.jpg
  • Decorative rooflines and arched stained glass windows ornament the stone buildings of Kawkaban, Yemen, beneath a pale grey sky, prior to its damage in an airstrike in Yemen's civil war.
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  • A trio of young schoolgirls poses in the hijabs and black abeyas of modest Islamic dress for Yemen, at the edge of a mountainside road in Taiz, Yemen, against the backdrop of a pale blue sky dusted with clouds.
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  • The ornate twin minarets of the Al Ashrafiya Mosque, constructed from qadad lime plaster, pierce a bright blue sky dusted with clouds in Taiz, Yemen, at the foot of Sabr mountain, one of the most important Islamic centers in Yemen.
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  • The ornate twin minarets of the Al Ashrafiya Mosque, constructed from qadad lime plaster, pierce a bright blue sky dusted with clouds in Taiz, Yemen, at the foot of Sabr mountain, one of the most important Islamic centers in Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2416Yemen.jpg
  • The ornate twin minarets of the Al Ashrafiya Mosque, constructed from qadad lime plaster, pierce a bright blue sky dusted with clouds in Taiz, Yemen, at the foot of Sabr mountain, one of the most important Islamic centers in Yemen.
    CHDIMG_2415Yemen.jpg
  • The weather-worn carved wooden blue doors of the Al Janad mosque in Taiz, Yemen, are capped by a carved stone lintel.
    CHDIMG_1838Yemen.jpg
  • Marble bricks frame Arabic script carved into the walls of the ancient Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the oldest mosque in the country, dating to 628 A.D.
    CHDIMG_1835Yemen.jpg
  • Whitewash frames Arabic script carved into the walls of the ancient Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the oldest mosque in the country, dating to 628 A.D.
    CHDIMG_1833Yemen.jpg
  • An elaborately colourd stainted glass window decorates the entrance of the Al Janad Mosque, the oldest in Yemen, dating to 628 A.D.
    CHDIMG_1828Yemen.jpg
  • Holy water is poured in an arched niche in the Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the country's oldest, dating to  628 AD.
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  • The collapsed front facade of a mud brick housing complex in Tarim, Yemen, reveals the shortcomings of the construction methods, and the importance of waterproofing, rubble from the wall laying in the sun-scorched alleyway, in Tarim, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
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  • A military crest, representing Yemen's national emblem, features the colours of the Yemeni flag and the golden eagle of Saladin and adorns the upper bricked wall of the gate for Al Qahira castle on Mount Sabr in Taiz, Yemen.
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  • The sunlit minaret of the Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, pierces a pale blue sky, the oldest mosque in the country.
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  • A group of young women wearing black chadors stroll past the Al Janad Mosque with its ornate windows, in Taiz, Yemen, the oldest mosque in the country.
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  • Whitewash frames Arabic script carved into the walls of the ancient Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the oldest mosque in the country, dating to 628 A.D.
    CHDIMG_1832Yemen.jpg
  • Whitewash frames Arabic script carved into the walls of the ancient Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the oldest mosque in the country, dating to 628 A.D.
    CHDIMG_1831Yemen.jpg
  • The bright red prayer rugs of the ancient Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the country's oldest mosque, dating to 628 A.D.
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  • A deep blue sky flecked with clouds hangs above the ancient arched courtyard of Al Janad Mosque, the oldest in Yemen, dating to 628 A.D.
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  • The ornately carved wooden minbar of the ancient Al Janad mosqu in Taiz, Yemen.
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  • Massive white columns and arches frame the minbar of the ancient Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the oldest in the country, dating to 628 A.D.
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  • A group of young women wearing black chadors stroll past the Al Janad Mosque with its sunlit minaret piercing a pale blue sky in Taiz, Yemen, the oldest mosque in the country.
    CHDIMG_1839Yemen.jpg
  • Marble bricks frame Arabic script carved into the walls of the ancient Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the oldest mosque in the country, dating to 628 A.D.
    CHDIMG_1836Yemen.jpg
  • Sunlight streams from the courtyard in between giant columns across the prayer rugs of the Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the country's oldest mosque, dating to 628 A.D.
    CHDIMG_1834Yemen.jpg
  • Holy water is poured in an arched niche in the Al Janad Mosque in Taiz, Yemen, the country's oldest, dating to  628 AD.
    CHDIMG_1825Yemen.jpg
  • A heavy wooden door and frame feature intricately carved designs and large metal rivets, set in a sun-scorched mud brick wall in the Wadi Doan district of the arid Hadhramaut governorate of Yemen.
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  • Mud brick structures, one painted in pale green shades, rise from the arid plains of the Hadhramaut region surrounding Wadi Doan, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
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  • Mud brick villages rise up the rugged slopes of escarpments along the dry Wadi Doan, in the arid Hadhramaut region of Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
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  • The crumbling facade of a multi-storeyed mud brick complex sits beneath a pale blus sky, a gleaming white minaret rising in the background, in Seiyun, Yemen.
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  • Peering through a wooden keyhole shutter at an ornate mud brick minaret and the lowrise architecture of Seiyun, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
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  • Once-intricate arched stained glass windows are now shattered and filled with rocks on the facade of a mud brick and block building in Ibb, Yemen.
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  • Stone housing complexes rise up an arid hill crowned by a small crumbling stone fortress, beneath a pale blue sky in the Ibb governorate of Yemen.
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  • Unplanted terraced farm plots rise from a patchwork plain, dotted with scattered stone houses, mountains rising in a hazy distance beneath a pale blue sky in the Ibb governorate of Yemen.
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  • A photo of a map of the historic district of Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • The imposing People's Mosque or Al Saleh Mosque, with its multiple minarets and domes, rises behind the gingerbread-styled facades of housing complexes in the historic district of Sanaa, Yemen, hazy mountains visible beneath a pale blue sky in the background.
    CHDIMG_1578Yemen.jpg
  • A pair of men pray towards the minbars and mihrab of the expansive central prayer hall of the People's Mosque or Al Saleh Mosque, in Sanaa, Yemen, framed by massive red marble columns, beneath the scalloped arches supporting the central dome, Quranic verse painted amongst floral designs on almost every surface.
    CHDIMG_1468Yemen.jpg
  • Peering down a stone-walled alley in historic Hababa, Yemen, late-day sunlight glowing on decorative arched windows in housing complexes at the foot of a rugged escarpment.
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  • A pair of young girls pose in front of a tightly-fitted stone wall in the historic town of Hababa, Yemen, the metal water pipe running behind them, a sign of modernization.
    CHDIMG_1067Yemen.jpg
  • Children play around a battered blue car along a stone-paved street of rough stone buildings with metal and wooden doors in Hababa, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_1062Yemen.jpg
  • Decorative arched windows ornament a square-cut stone wall above an arched alleyway in Hababa, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_1058Yemen.jpg
  • Frogs poke their heads above the algae, plastic debris and other detritus in the resevoir waters of the historic town of Hababa, Yemen.
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  • A wooden door opens from a sunlit arch in a stone wall, revealing the debris of an abandoned space, in the historic town of Hababa, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_1025Yemen.jpg
  • The partially damaged stone wall of a rounded turret is visible beneath a pale blue sky dusted with clouds, in Thula, Yemen.
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  • Decorative windows and stained glass windows, some reflecting the pale blue sky and clouds above, combine with shutters and trim designs to ornament a mud-brick highrise in Dar Al Hajar, Yemen.
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  • A pair of Yemeni women in traditional dress, observing Islamic strictures for modesty, stroll across the arid, rocky ground of an interior plain on Socotra, Yemen, grazing goats and stone housing and farm enclosures in the background beneath a hazy blue sky.
    CHDIMG_0675MYemen.jpg
  • A lone scrappy tree sprouts from the side of a shallow crater in the Qobba or Ghubba salt flats on the island of Socotra, Yemen, beneath a hazy blue sky.
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  • The calm, turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean wash against the rocky shoreline of Socotra, Yemen, mountains rising to a pale blue sky shrouded in clouds.
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  • Terns and a trio of Brown Boobies perch on rocky outcrops from the Indian Ocean, on the shoreline of Socotra, Yemen, sheer, sunlit cliffs rising in the background.
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  • A pair of Egyptian Vultures perch atop decapitated Palm trees beneath a pale blue sky on the island of Socotra, Yemen.
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  • The sprawling whitewashed, mud  brick housing complexes and apartments of Shibam, Yemen, line narrow streets, stretching to the pale blue sky on the horizon, viewed from the mountains above, dubbed the Manhattan of the Desert.
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  • A whitewashed colonial era building features intricately carved wooden shutters, beneath a pale blue sky dusted with clouds, in Shibam, Yemen.
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  • Mud brick and whitewashed housing complexes rise along the foothills of a flat-topped mountain, obscured by palm trees, along the route to Shibam, Yemen.
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  • A group of rough wooden shutters are stored in a room, viewed through a window in a mud brick wall, in Seiyun, Yemen.
    CHDIMG_8165Yemen.jpg
  • A group of women wearing black abeyas in line with Islamic strictures around modesty, navigate the morning traffic in Tarim, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
    CHDIMG_8145Yemen.jpg
  • A narrow asphalt road winds up from the mud brick houses of Tarim, Yemen, into the flat-topped mountains in the background, beneath a hazy sky.
    CHDIMG_8135Yemen.jpg
  • A stained glass transom window sits above cut outs with light streaming through in a restored colonial era palace in Tarim, Yemen.
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  • Sun-baked mud brick archways and alleys in the old town district of Tarim, Yemen.
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  • Rosettes and floral motifs form the decorative elements in the sunlit plaster of a mud brick building's facade in the historic UNESCO heritage town of Zabid, Yemen.
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  • The onboard mapping system on Yemenia Airlines references all distances from Mecca, in this case approaching Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • A close-up of the bright red flowers of a Flame Tree, otherwise known as a Royal Poinciana or Delonix Regia, in Taiz, Yemen, a pale blue sky in the background.
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  • Staring up at the imposing exterior walls of Al Qahira castle on Mount Sabr, in Taiz, Yemen, beneath a deep blue sky.
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  • Clusters of red wildflowers crown the edge of an escarpment in Taiz, Yemen, beneath a deep blue sky.
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  • The towering and broad Minaret of Aden, Yemen pierces a pale blue sky dusted with clouds as sunset approaches.
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  • One of the 13 remaining Tawila Cisterns (of an original 53), in the Crater district of Aden, Yemen, for 2000 years a source of fresh water, framed by sunlit slopes.
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  • One of the 13 remaining Tawila Cisterns (of an original 53), in the Crater district of Aden, Yemen, for 2000 years a source of fresh water, framed by sunlit slopes.
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  • A dry culvert runs beneath an arched bridge from the Tawila Cisterns towards the port city of Aden, Yemen, its mortared stone walls capped by trees, beneath a pale blue sky, the cisterns a fresh water source for the city for some 2000 years.
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  • Graffiti images of a sun, a crescent and what appears to be a bird, is painted on a cinder block wall in Al Hudaydah governorate, in Yemen.
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  • A rusted and stripped down pickup truck sits in front of the remains of a walled farm compound dotted with mature trees in the arid Al Hudaydah governorate of Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
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  • Peering up at the interior of a domed tower in the historic town of Zabid, Yemen, sunlight pouring through upper openings in the brickwork.
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  • A thick-walled, sunlit, arched courtyard frames the perimeter of the Yifrus mosque, in Zabid, Yemen.
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  • A colourful glass open dome, refflects light beaming in a room in Taiz, Yemen, beneath an elaborate circular floral design.
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  • Headless mannequins wearing red dresses decorate the window of a fashionable store, contrary to the fairly modest Islamic dress standards of Taiz, Yemen.
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  • The twin minarets of the phosphorous white Queen Arwa mosque in Jiblah, Yemen, rise against the backdrop of terraced green mountains and the city's highrises, beneath a bright sky.
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  • A sparrow perches on the sunlit branch of a dead tree, on Socotra, Yemen.
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  • Sheer, sunlit, pastel-hued cliffs reflect the calm, bright blue waters of the Arabian Sea, on the island of Socotra, Yemen.
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  • The calm waters of the Arabian Sea ripple over algae-covered rocks along the sandy shoreline of Socotra, Yemen, at dusk.
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  • Tiny, electric blue fish swim amongst the algae-covered rocks and sand along the Arabian Sea shoreline of Socotra, Yemen.
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  • Sharp stalactites hang from the sunlit roof of a large cave entrance, scrappy bushes springing up from the floor next to a rough stone pillar, on the island of Socotra, Yemen.
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  • The surging waves of the aquamarine Arabian Sea crashing against the white sandy shoreline of Socotra, Yemen, beneath a dark blue sky.
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  • A shallow pool of water is all that remains of a broader stream at the base of a steep and narrow valley opening into a broad canyon beneath a pale blue sky, on the island of Socotra, Yemen.
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  • A tiny, sunlit pool of water is trapped between the giant rocks of a now-dry streambed, in a narrow valley on the island of Socotra, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
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  • The oddly-shaped, white trunks of Desert Rose or Bottle trees poke from the sunlit rock of a valley slope, beneath a pale blue sky on Socotra, Yemen, partly obscured by the leaves of more mature trees.
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  • Umbrella-like Dragon's Blood trees dot the arid landscape of flat-topped mountains in Socotra, Yemen, a steep canyon stretching to the horizon in the background, beneath a pale blue sky.
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  • Umbrella-like Dragon's Blood trees dot the arid landscape of a flat-topped mountain in Socotra, Yemen, a steep canyon stretching to the horizon in the background, beneath a pale blue sky.
    CHDIMG_9866Yemen.jpg
  • Umbrella-like Dragon's Blood trees dot the arid landscape of Socotra, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
    CHDIMG_9851MYemen.jpg
  • A pair of Shearwaters frolic above the calm waters of the Arabian Sea, a fishing boat moored below, on the island of Socotra, Yemen.
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  • Waves of the Arabian Sea crash onto the volcanic rock forming the rugged shoreline of Socotra, Yemen, beneath a pale blue sky.
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