Has anyone here been to Yemen?

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An American program is sponsoring several overseas classes in Jordan, Lebannon, Alexandria, Oman, Morocco, and Yemen. The Yemen course is limited to Sana'a which they assure he is pretty safe. Still, all these travel notices are worth considering. The school will arrange accommodations, so I am really just curious about city life there generally. All activities will be supervised by the school.

I was in Jordan last summer and it has the advantage of being familiar, especially since I now know most of the staff. All, I have friends in Lebannon, which also has a State Dept. travel advisory, who want me to visit them. In Morocco the local language is very different than standard Arabic, so it would not be much help in learning. I'm not qualified for the Oman course and it is crazy expensive. Alexandria, Jordan, Morocco, and Lebanon have enough European influence that most people will just assume I want to speak in English or French and will not be much help for my language skills.

There are other programs of course including a few in Cairo.