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result is that the rest-houses are crowded and the traditional way of
life in the time of the Imam no longer holds.
We have described the rest-houses because they are a typically
medieval institution; but all of Yemen is still at the rest-house level,
though only for a short time longer. S'Oon, very soon, Western neo–
capitalism will arrive here with its experts, its bankers, its construction
and business companies; and Yemen will become, as is desirable and
right, a country like all the others. The Middle Ages 'Of Yemen will be
swept away by bull-dozers and reinf'Orced cement. Unfortunately some
unique aspects will disappear.
It
is to be hoped that a few of them will
be preserved and inc'Orporated into the revolution.
(Translated by Carolyn Gaiser)
