Mini Guide to Moving to Yemen: 6: Passports

If you are thinking of making hijrah/moving overseas, obviously you will need a passport. Even if you are not leaving anytime soon, I highly recommend getting your passports now.  It can save you a lot of headache in the future from having to rush and get them at the last minute (like we did). Here [...]

Mini Guide to Moving to Yemen: 5: Are you ESL Certified?

You’ll probably definitely want to think about getting certified (and start a program soon) to teach ESL as this is, to my knowledge, where most Muslim foreigners find employment. Offline degrees are more esteemed than online ones, but certification is definitely better than being non certified. Not to say that you cannot get a job [...]

Mini Guide to Moving to Yemen: 4: Make a Pre-move visit

If you are a two parent household (or married couple), I highly recommend the husband coming to Yemen first to try to get things set up if that is possible. This is especially helpful if you have a family, but in any case, recommended, in my opinion. Before we came to  Yemen and Egypt as [...]

Mini Guide to Moving to Yemen: 3: Find a Contact Person

Of course if you are able to make contact with someone here who can help you, that is idea. Having someone to help you can, insha Allah, make things easier to set up beforehand.  Howver, don’t put all your eggs in one basket as things can go sour; don’t be totally dependent upon your contact. [...]

Moving to Yemen: A Mini Guide: 2: Learn Conversational Arabic

If you don’t know Arabic, or know very little, begin learning CONVERSATIONAL Arabic right now as you will need this to take care of your daily business.  The fus-hah you learned in textbooks may not be used on the streets……… You can see my Tips for Learning Spoken Arabic post for my personal observations of what’s [...]

Moving to Yemen: A Mini Guide: 1: Starting Out

To make an oversimplification of things, making the move is akin to making a move out of your home state; you’ll need to find work (or have money saved up to live off of), you’ll have to find housing, you’ll have to get tickets, etc.  The major differences are that that you’ll need passports and [...]

Mini Guide to Moving to Yemen

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem I was once asked on the blog here “Where do you start?” when planning to move abroad/make hijrah. At first I was a little hesitant to answer as this is such as major affair in life and in religion and I am certainly no scholar or expert otherwise; my husband did the [...]