Assalamualaykum to all. A few months ago I was sitting down and talking with my grandfather about his life back in Yemen. One story he shared with me was how my great-grandfather bought a brand new 1994 Toyota 80s Series Land Cruiser, and how whenever he needed him to run errands for him he would drive it around Taiz and Sana'a. The Land Cruiser was described to me as being brown/tan in color, with rear barn doors and a manual transmission.

Unfortunately, my great-grandfather sold the car two years later in 1996, and its whereabouts are currently unknown. I would love to find it and buy and import it if possible in a few years, but I have no idea how to find it. I'm curious, Is there any way for me to find a car in Yemen through its VIN number like how you can in America? I'm just curious.

Please help Alaa and his family from Gaza, their story is very sad and they are in desperate need of help now Please help Alaa and his family from Gaza. Their story is very sad and they are in desperate need of help now. Alaa was 28 years old, and he lived with his family in a house consisting of two floors, the first for his family and the second inhabited by him, his wife, his brother and his wife, but after that the war destroyed everything. Something, their house was destroyed, his apartment, which he had been married to for no more than two months, was destroyed. Now they have to live in a bad and unsafe tent. With so many people struggling too, Alaa also suffers due to the loss of his right shoulder joint and the installation of an artificial shoulder joint. He needs continuous follow-up and treatment. He also cannot work hard labor to support his family. Alaa and his family are sad about losing what he and his family worked hard for for years. The family does not have things like soap. Or clean water, or clothes, or a real place to live, diseases spread and they are always in danger Also, his grandmother suffers from many diseases and is in urgent need of providing the necessary treatment for her Alaa really wants to save his family and move them to a safer place, but that costs a lot, equivalent to $5,000 for an adult and $2,500 for a child. Please donate here to help Alaa and his family live in safety and stability Please the link in the bio 💔🇵🇸

السلام عليكم

انا من الأمارات بس عندي اهل بشبوة والبيضة ورايد ازورهم. اعرف ان في من اليمنيين الحين كارهين الأمارات, فكنت ابغي اسأل: هل اليمن امن لواحد أماراتي؟

شكرا

May your week be blessed all of you ☺️

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احلى رديت في قلبي و حابب اتعرف على المجتمع هنا و من فين هو/هي و حاليا فين مقيم. بشكل عام فقط.

I love this reddit from my Yemen, I really want to create a community here to make things easier for us to know one another. Since we have the same roots. Tell me where orginally you are from and where do you reside now.

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ليش السب كله انجليزي؟

Some background about me:

-I am a conservative religious muslim male and i've been muslim since I was 15 (i'm 19 now)
-my dad is a secular-ish jew and my mom is a non-practicing 'christian'. both are pretty liberal and open minded. my sister is atheist but she supports Palestine and stuff like that so in that way she's pretty chill.
-my moms family is mostly pretty chill and/or open minded and I have no cousins from that side, despite having 1 aunt and 2 uncles
-My dad's side is a bit less open minded but that would probably only be behind closed doors. My parents don't really like them much anyways and we hardly see them. (on that side I have just 1 aunt and 1 cousin. my would-be uncle was dead a long time ago, and both my grandparents on that side are deceased)

anyways for the story (will try to condense as much as I can, but it spans 2 years-ish so bear with me):

Me and my best friend (male & Moroccan ~ the story isn't about him) met in junior year of high school and we quickly became great friends. we used to sit on the left side of the bleachers, at the top nearest to the plaza, at our high school for lunch. anyways, at some point these 2 muslim sisters (i mean literally: they are sisters) began sitting at the same area but on the bottom part of the bleachers, opposite us. Our high school was mostly nonmuslims so they really stood out to me because of their shyness, adherance to the hijab, and so on. But honestly, I didn't have much in the way of romantic feelings yet. I did admire them (in a mostly platonic way), though.

Anyway, the next year my friend had to leave to another state, and her (the woman who this story is about) sister was also no longer going to the school either (she graduated I think). I didn't have any close friends at that school other than my moroccan friend so I was pretty lonely and you can imagine the climate that was being set up here.

We ended up in the same Marine Biology class. Nonetheless we sat at different tables (mine was all male, and her all female) and I still didn't have much in the way of romantic feelings. Anyhow, around late September (of 2023), one day after praying one of my wajib prayers, I just casually made du'a for a righteous wife (not related to her. i just happened to do it). Shortly after that an internal voice directed me towards her. Now, I don't really take internal thoughts like this too seriously but after that, the idea grew and my newfound feelings for her hit me like a truck. After trying to think about it for I think 2 weeks-ish I eventually just decided that I should go for it and >>if she rejects me then 3adiy its fine because then I can move on (this sort of thinking was definitely definitley wrong)<<. so one day in the morning at school I mustered up my courage, said salams to her and asked her if I could have permission to sit next to her for a second [to talk about something ~ implied] (not in a weird way, just for a moment)

and basically after some introduction I asked for her dads number; she declined in a very polite way.

So you may be thinking this is the end of the story? nope, not at all. its just getting started.

After that, I soon realized how misguided it was of me to think that her rejecting me would help me move on. I had to see her in class every 2 days more-or-less, and my feelings only grew for her. I noticed through certain means (i'm not a stalker don't get the wrong idea) how religious she was (beyond what i knew before), how she was passionate about art (i like it too. but my sister is phenomenal at it. we have some painting[s] of her's around our house), how shy and feminine she seemed... I liked her so much but at the same time I was very miserable about the whole thing. through this period I didn't speak to her, look at her intentionally, etc but we did 'bump into each other' a fair bit, accidental eye locking sometimes, etc... Anyways, later in the year I began to notice signs of her interest in me (they were tangible and could definitely be interpreted as interest. though not clear enough for me to be sure). Looking back, I think she did indeed end up developing a crush on me later in the year but only Allah knows. Khalas, the school year ended and nothing really happened with her and me. I was so so miserable about that, as I really liked her. But... I thought it was over, and for about 4 months I somewhat-begrudgingly moved on (not fully but mostly I guess) and started my first college semester.

But it wasn't over. After those 4 months, I began to wonder if she did have feelings for me or not? So basically through an intermediary I reached out to her and essentially asked 'if she was interested or not (i did write a very long message but i will leave off writing it for the sake of brevity), so that if she wasn't I could truly move on, and if she was, then well... move from there'. So, she actually did respond with a whole essay of a message (through the intermediary) and to cut things quick; She thought I seemed like a nice guy, she appreciated/respected how I approached her (the first time), but she wasn't sure because she didn't know me well enough to really sense the compatibility, so she suggested maybe next fall semester (we were in fall semester at the time) to get to know each other and stuff. At first I was okay with that, but then I realized that this wasn't good because a break of a whole year at that point would either destroy my feelings or blow them to unrealistic expectations, or one before the other, so I think 3 weeks later, through the intermediary, I suggested either winter break or spring break (i felt like spring break was reasonable without being too long, >although I did prefer winter break <--didn't tell her that tho) to start to get to know each other. initially she, without any pushback, agreed to spring, but later sent a message (all through the intermediary) that winter break would actually be better. We eventually came to the understanding that she would tell her parents in late december and we could meet (with her mahram present obviously) sometime in january.

Eventually though, I received a message in early december through the intermediary that she had told her parents and that all was well. She said her parents wanted to know more about me and that her dad suggested exchanging phone numbers so that we (me and her dad) could call or text to talk about it, and after that things would move forward. I could tell by the diction in her message that she seemed very enthusiastic and happy about these developments.

On that same night that I saw this message, I did call her dad and we talked for 20+ minutes. Overall, we actually got along quite well (for a first conversation) and he told me to text her directly afterwards to see if there is chemistry or not and also said something along the lines of; "I am looking forward to meet you in person". However at the same time, he did warn me that me being the only muslim in my family could be an issue with family back home, who are more traditional and conservative, and that there might be some backlash from them for this. Moreover he mentioned that aside from his son, his 2 daughter's and him are not US citizens and may have to leave the country in a few years. But he did add that he loves his daughter and she is an adult so he is ultimately leaving the decision to her to make, by her own choice. That said, despite the issues he brought up, and considering how most of the conversation seemed fine, I saw the conversation as net positive and I figured that my US citizenship (don't like to bring it up but it is relevant so...) would at least somewhat level the playing field in regard to the family issue. I happily walked home from the area of uni I was in. I did not expect the awful news I was going to read the next day, straight from her herself!

The next day, around noon, i saw a "message request" in my instagram. It was from her directly. strange. But what I read broke my heart. I'll just quote it directly here:

As salamu alaykum

My dad told me about the talk you had yesterday. You seem like a very nice guy and my dad thinks so as well. As you probably already know, I come from a large and closely tied family. We are very traditional which is why looking at how the family dynamics will play out is important to us. After some thought, I think that if we were to continue it would just put us both in a difficult situation from both sides. I really appreciate your patience and thoughtful approach, but I believe it would be best if we both moved on and ended it here.

This really broke my heart. I tried to reason with her and explain a bit further and so on but all I got was:

Please don’t take it personally, it’s just that my family is very traditional and mostly in Yemen. And I believe this won’t work. Thank you for your interest and I wish you the very best.

and at some point I reached out to her;

"I mean. Yesterday everything seemed fine. Now everything is done. What changed? I’m just curious. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

I don’t want to seem like I’m being intrusive but I guess I’m just a bit shocked right now"

and her final message:

Nothing changed, I just don’t see it working out especially from my side of the family that’s all.

So yeah, thats it. this has hurt me bad. I have tried to move on and its been about 5 weeks, but its very difficult and sometimes I wish I could try and change her mind somehow. Yet I also feel like it's futile and I might just get a cold response, ghosted, or worse. I am kind of lost as to what to do . On the one hand I loved her and I still do but on the other hand she just zapped out so quickly. Where is the person from before? Why so suddenly? I don't know...

But I just want your advice. what to do you? Move on? How? Any other advice?

(Ps: I am sorry if this post is written erratically. I was just trying to 'get my feelings onto paper' if that makes sense.)

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I’d like to start a discussion about the current state of Yemeni influencers on social media platforms. It seems that some public figures are stirring controversy with the content they share, which sometimes includes offensive or irresponsible behavior.

Do you think this kind of behavior negatively impacts the reputation of Yemenis and their identity abroad? And do you feel there’s a need to improve the quality of content being produced?

Additionally, do you think followers bear some responsibility for supporting or encouraging such behaviors? I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences.

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Where does the oil and gas consumed in Yemen come from? I assume in the south it is local production, but is the north producing any? Importing it?

Hi everyone, my name is Ghilan I'm mobile apps developer Recently I tried to receive my apps revenue That comes directly from google play console To Yemeni accounts but I couldn't receive anything Cause google transfers it as USD and all I found in Yemeni banks only receive euro Anyone has an experience with that Or already receiving revenue from google play console from Yemen? Please help ...

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I ask this because if the difference is minimal I’ll just go with an agent.

I’d appreciate it if you could state the price (Aden to Jeddah) and when you travelled.

Thank you

I've read their rant about how they're switching their identity entirely to Egyptian or Moroccan and don't like the way Yemen is. Ngl that dude was tweaking, idk what made him this ashamed. Why do so many Yemenis like him switch their identities and get rid of their culture entirely?? What's invalid about his post? I just wanna hear all the perspectives in the comments inshallah.

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