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...tribal war over the Marai Mountain in Yemen's Al-Bayda province has claimed more than 150 lives over a decade. Which is why Sheik Abdul-Rahman Al-Marwani, chair of the Dar Al-Salaam Organization for Combating Revenge and Violence, is steering his SUV one-handed through Sanaa's traffic, while using his Nokia phone to negotiate a possible settlement to the conflict. By the time Marwani hangs up, he's brokered a shaky truce between the two main warring groups : a year-long cease-fire during which there'll be more talks...
...Stables. The 4,000-sq-m hall was used by the Crusaders to stable their horses (it features in Dan Brown's best seller The Da Vinci Code as the place where the Knights Templars hatched their plots). When Awwad was done in early 2000, it was dubbed the Marwani Mosque. Awwad hauled thousands of tons of rubble from a massive new entrance to the mosque. He claims he merely pulled out fill from an existing Crusader ramp, but Israeli...