<story><title>Green Arabia</title><url>http://www.idlewords.com/2014/08/green_arabia.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gms</author><text>As with the author&amp;#x27;s other essay on his visit to Yemen, this was an enjoyable one. But this line isn&amp;#x27;t wholly true:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I don’t have the heart to tell him that there’s no future for him anywhere I’m from, either. In the US, being from Yemen is practically synonymous with being a terrorist. The world expects people like him to stay put and suffer in place.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Trying to visit the US on a visa with a Yemeni passport is indeed difficult, and so is trying to emigrate there. But it&amp;#x27;s not impossible: there is a sizable population of Yemenis who have settled in the US and been very glad for how much better their lives are.  San Francisco and Oakland both contain large Yemeni populations.</text></comment>
<story><title>Green Arabia</title><url>http://www.idlewords.com/2014/08/green_arabia.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>616c</author><text>Ya marhaba ya mashala!&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it is very cool to see this guy quoting Bukhari.  The internet is a wondeful place.&lt;p&gt;I have commented her before, but I am very jealous of your travels to Yemen.  I have talked to co-workers for a while and I am not sure the time is right.&lt;p&gt;And you have to be sitting in the back of a Land Cruiser! (For the uninitiated the most popular car in the Gulf, far and large, is the Toyota Land Cruiser, in all of its carnations, and the Nissan Patrol in a distant second).</text></comment>