The Foreign Service Journal, January 2013

66 JANUARY 2013 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY JOANNE CUMMINGS n WITH AN IPHONE 3 CAMERA. Enter your photography to be featured in Local Lens! Images must be high resolution (at least 11 MB). Please submit a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name and the type of camera used to locallens@afsa.org. I took this picture of a young Yemeni boy from the al-Ahmar tribe in Sanaa in October 2012. Behind him, his father and older brother are dressed in the same traditional attire. The long robe is more common in the north, and the jambia (dagger) is as essential to the costume as a sporran is to a kilt in Scotland. Worn in the city and thoughout much of the country by street ped- dlers and cabinet ministers alike, the jambia is a symbol of identity that is rarely actually used. n Joanne Cummings is deputy political/ economic officer in Sanaa.