A 24-year-old jazz fan from Qatar, Hanan Al-Kaabi did not lament the closure this summer of the Gulf state's only jazz club.
Acclaimed trumpeters and pianists from New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center band had played at the club in the St Regis Hotel (...)
clad civil servant gazes at the floor, his right cheek bulging with a tennis ball-sized wad of bright green leaves. Every day after lunch, 38-year-old Ali returns to his office at the Passport and Immigration Authority in Sanaa to spend the rest of (...)
