A Yemen Built for Two?

In their quest to unify the country after the Arab Spring, Yemen's new leaders are confronting a major obstacle: calls for secession.

BY LUKE SOMERS | DECEMBER 7, 2012

Identifiable as northerners from their dress and traditional janbiya daggers, two men perform a dance on an Adeni beach before bemused onlookers. Southerners refer to northerners by the derogatory term dahbashi after a popular Yemeni television show about a buffoon from the north. For Adenis, who see themselves as sophisticated and worldy, Dahbash came to personify their perception of northerners as low-class and tribal.

Luke Somers

 

Luke Somers is a photographer based in Sanaa, Yemen, who has lived and worked in the country since February 2011. Luke's photography can be viewed at LukeSomers.com.