Letters to the Editor [Archives:2001/10/Letters to the Editor]
Dear Editor,
I believe that the Yemen will be celebrating “Women’s Day” and I was wondering if you had heard anything from the Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs, is it still Mr. Abdul Kader Bajamal? I ask this because I thought that he was trying to sort out Nadia Mushen’s problems of going home to visit her family in England, whom she hasn’t seen in 21 years now. I wonder how poor Nadia is getting on, as I visit the web site that they’ve got for her but she seems very ill, and when the Embassy staff tried to see her, her husband sent someone else in her place, as this false Nadia could not speak English at all. Perhaps you could send someone up to see just how Nadia is and perhaps it would be a good idea to take a Doctor along with them, as Nadia is also very ill and has also developed a limp. Maybe some good food might also be a blessing as it seems Nadia has lost a lot of weight too!! It seems very sad in this day and age that someone can be sold
off into marriage and not have any say in their future. Let us hope that God/Allah’s light will shine upon Nadia and her family and that her GREAT WISH of visiting her Family in England with her children will come true! Now, that would be something special to happen for her on “Women’s Day” wouldn’t it?
Jody Campbell
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Hard Words Break no Bones
It has become an obstinate syndrome in the third world and non-democratic countries in general that names of heads of states are on the top of official media priority. Their names take the lead in television and radio news and press coverage over the warmest and most important events in the world.
Their main activities, with close details, displace world’s most important news; and they may take the technically supposed time of all new.
Official media officers in these countries devote most of their efforts for bringing the head of state in the most propitiatory form. Their names are repeatedly mentioned from dawn to dawn with praise and tribute.
A big misery is, moreover, when a states officials, however important, they to repeat the names of their heads in each and every and even casual occasions. They, too, feel powerful and proud of what they ulter believing it a source of safety and as a duty has to be done voluntarily.
Yemen actually is not a different case. It’s rather exactly the same though professedly democratic country. To observe closely, democracy and free opinion have been domesticated to mean saying and writing whatever you like; and official media is doing so. But it is all the time for the head of state and leadership. No personal comment nor constructive criticism has ever been made.
An official agency speaker or writer brings the impression, out of his output, that speaking logically and naturally is an extraordinary job. Brilliant speakers and professional journalists find themselves drawning in the material reality and never thinking of their talent, profession or responsibility.
Certainly it is a big shame that such doings exist even in campaigning for our enviable democracy. Real democracy means first uplifting minds to the level required to be aware of what is good for democracy.
Abdulaziz Attabbai
A Jewish Yemeni Asking
I am Jewish Yemeni born in Israel but both my grandparents come from Yemen.
I immigrated to Australia 1987 married a Scottish wife and now we all live in Scotland.
In my entire life, I have dreamed of going to my ancestors land-Yemen because I am Jewish.
I love to visit Yemen one day. Do you think that it is possible?
Will I ever see the country that my grandfather and grandmother used to sing me about?
Will I ever see Sanaa or Aden?
Can someone please tell me?
zuri_simhi
zuri_simhi@hotmail
Dear Editor,
I am just wondering how come after all this success running this newspaper, you have not yet started an employment page where people form abroad who are thinking coming back to work in their country may find careers that are suitable for their qualifications.
Marwan Mawiri
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Dear Marwan,
Thank you for your suggestion in employing Yemenis from other countries. We are planning to make many improvements in the staff and other issues. Perhaps this particular question may top our agenda in the new future. Thank you for your recommendation, and keep on following up Yemeni news through Yemen Times.ÑEditor
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