Shibam's Mud-Brick Towers and the Wadi Resilience

Shibam, the 'Manhattan of the Desert,' rises from Yemen's Wadi Hadhramaut with mud-brick towers up to eleven stories high. This episode explores how this ancient city survived centuries: the engineering of its compacted earth, the social cohesion that rebuilt it after floods, and its place in Yemen's modern conflicts, including the 2008 al-Qaeda bombing and the 2015 civil war. Lucas and Luna walk through the city's narrow alleys, uncover the role of the Hadhrami diaspora in preserving Shibam, and ask what it means to maintain a fragile UNESCO World Heritage site amid crisis. They also touch on the nearby town of Tarim and the valley's broader historical significance as a crossroads of trade, faith, and architecture.

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