The setting is a tent. Robed and bearded men sit in a circle around a cast-iron pot as flames lick the sides. Grasping gobbets of charred flatbread, they swipe them in the pot and ferry bites of the brown bubbling goo to their lips. In the rocky desert of Yemen, where the mosque towers soar like bony white fingers and men still wear daggers called jambiyas in their belts, this ritual of communal dining is one of the... More >>>