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 Página en Español		 Abdulwahab Al-Sayrafi was born in 1968 in the Dau'd Quarter, heart of the old city of Sanaa. For many generations his family has been the principal alabaster cutters in Yemen, making windows for dwellings in the capital and as far away as Rada'. By the 1960s, however, imports of cheap colored glass had killed off the alabaster industry, which is extremely labor intensive at both mining and cutting stages. Abdulwahab has now revived the craft of his ancestors, working on restoration projects and promoting the reintroduction of alabaster in new building. At the same time, his lighting range which has been called "sculpture in light" -- reinterprets an ancient and peculiarly Yemeni tradition for a wider, contemporary world.

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