YEMEN IN FOCUS (2000-2004)
Khaled Tarek Fazaa is the photo correspondent in Yemen for the French news agency AFP. YEMEN IN FOCUS is a selection from the photographs that he has made over the past four years of ordinary life in this republic, which lies on the most southerly end of the Arabian peninsula. Yemen is still to a large extent a tribal society, in which carrying weapons – symbols of character and masculinity – is the most normal thing in the world. It is estimated that there are about sixty million firearms in circulation in Yemen among a population of less than twenty million. In 1990 North and South Yemen were united into the Republic of Yemen. In recent years the country has undergone an economic crisis, which has particularly struck the middle and lower classes.
