The Bin Laden family’s roots in Yemen go back to a small village called Al-Rubat in the Hadhramaut region. This area is known for sending generations of men abroad as traders and builders. Osama bin Laden’s father, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, was born there around 1908 before leaving Yemen as a teenager to find work in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. That journey changed his entire family’s trajectory. The original family home in Yemen is extremely simple — a traditional mud-brick Hadhrami house. It look