Q&A With Yahya Frederickson

“I’ve learned that poetry can be more central to culture than it is in the U.S. From North Africa to the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula, I’ve met people from all levels of society who hold poetry dear enough to commit it to memory and share it.” Continue reading →

Yahya Frederickson in Yemen: The Gold of the Wayfarer

by Athena Kildegaard

At first, he found the calls to prayer exotic. . . . Eventually, though, Frederickson noted, the call “turned out to be something that I really grew to appreciate despite my apprehension and distrust of it at the beginning.”

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