Thomas Friedman drove me to try qat. An evergreen plant, grown in the Yemeni highlands, with leaves that have mildly narcotic properties, qat can be both a relaxant and a stimulant. Almost all Yemeni ...

The Guardian is running the latest piece about Yemen's impending qat Armageddon -- the day when qat cultivation finally sucks dry Yemen's last drop of fresh water, and twenty-three million qat addicts ...

When I was a small child, I spent many afternoons on my father’s lap seeing qat being chewed in front of my eyes. In fact, I used to innocently help my father and hand him the greenish leaves from the ...

In the 1960s and '70s, doctors prescribed Captagon for narcolepsy, depression, and hyperactivity. First synthesized in 1961 by the German pharmaceutical company Degussa AG, Captagon was marketed as a ...

DJIBOUTI CITY, Djibouti — In less than a quarter of an hour every day, life in Djibouti City all but comes to a standstill. It begins just after an Ethiopian Airlines flight lands at 1 p.m. at ...

Sanaa, Yemen - Before the Christmas Day underwear bomber came along and elevated the profile of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, most Westerners probably only thought of Yemen for being the ...

Now this is embarrassing. I'm expected to have something to say about Theresa May's intention to ban the plant-drug qat, but due to a texting error by a new intern, I ...

The world has a lot at stake in Yemen. Down but not out, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is currently recovering from wounds suffered during an attack on June 3 on his compound in a Saudi hospital ...