selected tearsheets: newspapers

THE YEMEN OBSERVER
(Yemen)

(Top to bottom; left to right) The "zaffah" for a Yemeni-American groom at an Islamic wedding hall in Brooklyn; Wedding guests included several generations of immigrants and their children; A Yemeni-American groom sits by himself at the head table at the Islamic wedding hall; A man smoking a cigarette by the dance floor in the men's section of the wedding hall; Mohammed Hayel, a Yemeni wedding singer and oud player, keeps the dancers moving; Hayel tests his microphone; A boy snacks on hummus and potato chips during the festivities; Only small children move between the men's and women's section at the Widdi Islamic Wedding Hall in Brooklyn; Hayel's song book of Yemeni music is written and pasted into an old calendar from 1978; Men dancing together at a Yemeni wedding; Wedding guests follow the groom into the hall during the 'zaffah'; Young boys played soccer with an empty plastic bottle outside an Islamic wedding hall; The remains of the day - qat is illegal in the U.S., yet available among Yemenis.(Credit: Amanda Rivkin)

"New York's Yemenis: Forging a Home Away from Home," p. 4
May 29, 2007.