Today, Ali bin Saleh Lahmadi, a business person and a descendant of the Lahmadi Yemenis, is amongst those worrying about his citizenship, like so lots of others.
From the barracks
Barkas is a corruption of the word ‘barracks’. Yemeni soldiers very first enlisted in the Asaf Jahi dynasty’s structured armed forces, the Nazm-e-Jamiyat, and in the irregular forces, the Afwaj-e-Beqaidah
Locals of Barkas collect at a qahwa store
.|Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal
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The males zipping by on bikes wear the ghatra, the traditional headgear worn in the Arabian Peninsula, wrapped around their head, its ends flapping on their backs and their lungi