Christmas trees and minarets in Old Sana’a
As a western woman in Yemen you get used to being stared at quite a lot, but there were jaws on the floor when I walked through the Old City last night with a Christmas tree on my shoulder.
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Iona Craig is a freelance journalist based in Sana'a, Yemen and The Times of London Yemen Correspondent. She also writes for USA Today, The Sunday Times and regularly contributes to The National (UAE) and Index on Censorship.
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A collection of Iona's reporting from Yemen's southern province of Abyan
You can also find her at The Frontline Club
For more coverage of the case of Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye currently being held in a Sana'a prison at the request of the United States. You can sign the petition here in English.
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