selected tearsheets: newspapers

THE YEMEN OBSERVER
(Yemen)

(Left to right, top to bottom) Men pray on the street at the Dawood Mosque in Brooklyn, one of the oldest mosques in New York City. Because of overcrowding at the small, apartment-sized mosque, many of the men must pray on the street outside the mosque on Fridays; Mohammed Hayel, a maintenance technician and oud player, has lunch with his son at the Yemen Luncheonette in Brooklyn after Friday prayers; Akram Hatem, 28, and Mahmood Alsubai, 23, serve up traditional Yemeni food at the Yemen Cafe in Brooklyn; A taste of home; The site of the first Arabic language public school, the Khalil Gibran School, opening this September. Dhaba Almontaser, a Yemeni-American, will be the school's first principal; The Sanaa Restaurant and a popular Lebanese marketplace, Sahadi's, are neighbors on a stretch of Atlantic Avenue near the Brooklyn waterfront. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The Yemen Observer)

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