The road to Aden

This book is a humble attempt through which I wanted to draw attention to what our community is rich with of social customs, values, and noble morals, and the richness and diversity in these customs and traditions. Its material was gathered from experiences, observations, dialogues, and conversations that took place during a journey I undertook with my travel companions from Dathina to Aden. I recorded it at several stopping points, and shaped it in a conversational form that combines classical language and the local dialect. In this book, I shed light on marriage and its customs, agriculture and its activities of farming, sowing, and harvesting, as well as construction processes, and the spirit of cooperation prevailing among people through what I know and have experienced, and what I was able to gather from the mouths of the people in the Republic of Dathina.