Yemen's peaceful mountaintop oasis
A civil war rages below, but life for Dhalamlam Mountain's rural villagers carries on

(Image credit: REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad)

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(Image credit: (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)But in the remote villages at the top of Dhalamlam Mountain, in western Yemen, life has largely carried on as usual. Unlike most people in Yemen before the war, these)

(Image credit: (REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad))

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Jackie Friedman is the assistant photo editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the photojournalism program at Kent State University and now lives in New York.
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