almotamar.net - A scientific symposium on the Yemeni architecture recommended Wednesday the study of problems and challenges that face the architecture at the present age and present convenient treatments to the concerned parties for implementation.
The symposium demanded to demonstrate the dangers the Yemeni architectural heritage is exposed to and urges the official sides to take possible arrangements for preserving it against obliteration.
The symposium, concluded on Wednesday at the University of Aden, also recommended the study of the possibility of protecting the Yemeni cities from pollution with the styles that are alien to the multi Yemeni environment and to study the correct ways in the use of Yemeni styles and elements of the modern Yemeni architecture.
The participants in the symposium that reviewed around 2o studies on the Yemeni architecture presented by Yemeni and German researchers, called for enlightenment on the importance of preserving the traditional architectural heritage including preservation of old buildings and cities as cultural and historical values and national and human cultural heritage.
The participants also recommended establishment of database on the Yemeni traditional cities and their architectural characteristics and to document the historical landmarks and give them information prominence.
The symposium urged the taking care of the traditional building and to include it in curricula of architectural education at colleges of architecture at the Yemeni universities and preservation of urban empty areas inside the old cities such as squares and green areas. It also demanded the rehabilitation of some old buildings after renovating them in a manner in harmony with the surrounding environment and not to neglect the social planning that has become urgently needed while studying the architectural development of old cities centres.
Recommendations of the symposium stressed the necessity of issuing laws and legislations working on stopping the tampering with the historical buildings and contributing in defining a general stamp of buildings in one area and issuing law forcing a ban on using modern construction materials in areas characterized with traditional architectural style but according to criteria guaranteeing preservation of the historical nature of the city.
The participants in the symposium called for upgrading efficiency of engineers working in planning and municipalities and giving them training courses for modernizing and activation of their knowledge and to put an end to random building before its spread.
They have also recommended seeking help of the local cadre who are efficient and have experience in planning and designing as well as speeding the process of issuing a law on the practice of engineering profession.
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In 2007 the opposition Yemen Congregation for Reform (Islah) Islamic oriented Party maintained its having political and media sway over the Joint meeting Parties (JMP) block, also consisting of Yemen Socialist Party and the Nasserite Unionist Organisation. 
Yemen is practically a cool green paradise, with crisp mountain air, enormous acacia trees, pristine coral reefs and verdant fields bursting with khat, a psychoactive plant that induces mild euphoria. 
Sana'a: Yemen will not be able to combat terror without regional and international cooperation, said a Yemeni official, who warned of the ramifications of letting Yemen fight terrorism alone.
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Doctors use the word “crisis” to describe the point at which a patient either starts to recover or dies. President George W. Bush’s Iraqi patient now seems to have reached that point. Most commentators appear to think that Bush’s latest prescription – a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad – will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq. Yet as “Battle of Baghdad” begins, factors beyond Bush’s control and not of his making (at least not intentionally) may just save Iraq from its doom.