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Tower Houses – Yemen
Jan 20th
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen
For centuries the need for security has driven the fiercely tribal inhabitants of Yemen to live together in towns that can be easily defended. Although there are distinct regional differences, the vernacular house is a tower, built to a height of up to 30 metres. Sana’a, the capital of the Yemen, has about 14000 of these tower houses. Typically they are six storeys high, made of mud bricks decorated with thick layers of whitewashed gypsum. More >
The Middle East
Aug 10th
Here in the cradle of civilization, the remnants of the greatest empires of the ancient world yield to the lyrical call to prayer from a blue-tiled mosque. Tighter they mark the passing of time, as if life has changed little in centuries, even as everything seems to change from one day to the next.
The Middle East stretches from the Central Asian steppes of eastern Iran to the Mediterranean where Israel, Lebanon and Syria lie somewhat uncomfortably by the water’s edge. The region is dominated by its deserts; the Empty Quarter is one of the largest in the world and is shared by most of the countries of the Arabian Peninsula – Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and United Arab Emirates. More >
