Aden's Hurricane offers just one screening a day, but a devoted band of Yemeni film lovers has kept the British colonial-era cinema going through communism, civil war and Al-Qaeda. This routine -- every evening except Saturday -- has withstood years of upheaval in violence-wracked Yemen, and most recently weathered the political crisis that saw the president flee his residence to sanctuary in Aden. A former British protectorate and prosperous port city, Aden was exposed to foreign arts and culture in a way that set it apart from much of conservative Yemen. When South Yemen gained independence in 1967, its socialist rulers encouraged Aden's openness.
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