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Yahya Arhab

Yemen

Yahya Arhab was born in Sana'a in 1975. Before he joined the epa images team as a photographer in Yemen in 2004 he worked as a reporter for the state-run Saba news agency. Since 2014 till now, Arhab has covered the ongoing war in Yemen.

His professional training comprises several courses in journalism and photography in Yemen, Malaysia, and China. In 2009 a photographic journey led him across Saudi Arabia.

For epa images, Yahya mainly covers major news and features across Yemen, including political and social turmoil, the 2011 popular uprising as well as al-Qaeda attacks and trials and the current war. He also covered the Islamic pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in 2010, FIFA Club World Cup 2013 in Morocco, World Men's Handball Championship 2015, IAAF World Athletics Championships 2019 in Qatar, and G20 conference of finance ministers and central banks 2020 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.