Congratulations on successfully reaching your goal!! All the luck in the world to you!

Alex in New York City

Hi Amira - thank you for the beautiful print which arrived safely in London. Thank you too for your thoughtful and lovely letter. I wish you all the luck in the world in pursuing your gift as a photographer - Martin

Amira, I'm so glad for you! If you happen to check this today I have friends in NY who are hosting Thanksgiving for international students. Let me know if you don't have Thanksgiving plans & I'll connect you! Many blessings to you in your endeavor.

Its beautiful to see the support you've inspired. Way to go Amira! I can't wait to see the story and the pictures you take.
Donna Ferrato

Wishing you the very best of luck and success with your amazing project Amira and hope you have a wonderful time in New York.

Salaam Aleikum ... I am a backpacking traveler from New Zealand and have been to your amazing country, Yemen (including Sana'a, for a month in 2005), and have traveled much of the Islamic world, and this project is just what the world needs to provide greater understanding, for all.

I have only discovered you - and this website - with 59 hours to go but will happily offer some $.

Regards - from Tai'an, China.

Michael Robert Powell | the candy trail ... a nomad across the planet, since 1988

What a wonderful project! I truly hope that your images will bring more understanding. I look forward to seeing your photographs when the project is done. Congratulations, I'm so glad you were able to get this financed!!

Really beautiful pictures! Thank you for your sight :)!

I would love to help you in any way I can, I admire your support and your courage to do what you love! Follow your dream and I would be very interested in helping you put a book together about women our age from different countries around the world. Let me know if you are interested!

This is wonderful & much needed in our world! I am so happy that you are already more than fully funded : ) Best wishes, Michelle May

good luck , this is a great project

Congratulations!

What you're about to do is inspiring, creative, beautiful, and certainly very important and much needed. From a fellow ay-rab - iddeeeeelo!!

Samer

Congratulations on a very successful kickstart for a very noble project! Look forward to seeing the end result.

This is fantastic. I am so glad that you have this opportunity, and I know that you will make the most of this unique experience.

This is fantastic! I wish you the best of luck. Please keep us updated -- I personally would very much like to see where you take this project & any future ones as well!

Good luck Amira, have an amazing time! I hope you can highlight the similarities between individuals in the west and the middle east; we're all people no matter where we come from.

Beautiful work and very inspiring. Enjoy New York and welcome to America! Best wishes to you - much success in your future

This is a great project, way to be creative !
Looking forward to hearing more about this, hopefully on CNN :)

I hope that with the money over your goal that you'll be able to get out of NYC and document a few other parts of the US. NYC is unique with its own plusses and minuses, but I suspect just seeing the lives of people in NYC will give a skewed view as to the lives of Americans (women or men). Best wishes and take care.

Your work is very beautiful and touching, and I very much look forward to seeing how your time in New York helps you to reveal American and Yemeni women's lives. Since you are already over your goal, you'll have more money to spend on photo gear!

It's soooooooooo refreshing to see a creative kickstarter project in NYC that isn't just some white privileged spoiled suburban hipster pretending to be passionate about "film making" or whatever, when they really just want free money to run around NYC recording all there white privileged spoiled suburban friends talking about the problems they don't have. We desperately need people with your REAL passion and familiarity with REAL struggle to help open our eyes to how ignorant, vain and spoiled we can be here in the states. I love the idea of this project and I love your attitude. Congratulations on this achievement and good luck. You deserve it more than a lot of people here. I cant wait to seeing the finished project!

You made it! Congratulations!

as.sallamu alaykum ukhti,

well I hope you get the money you need... straight up I wont donate because, as a British man who has Yemeni heritage and has only recently rediscovered that side of me I feel that there is more i could do there than to support your project in America. As an advice I would say that many of the arabs have a type of schizophrenia when they have a relationship with the west, they love the kuffar and bend over backwards to accommodate any of their demands and yet at the same time they wonder why the western governments policies towards their countries are so unbalanced. I dont have any right over you, your parents reserve this right.i hope as an advice you realise that when you go their you should walk tall and proud being fully aware that the demands of your deen equally apply in the states as elsewhere.

You should use the opportunity to take lots of pictures to show just how unfairly the women in the west hat are treated by a society that judges their appearance as them and demands they work as men whilst hold together the home. Show the indignities of the life of westerners in the west, their prison be it self constructed or imposed and spread it throughout the middle east to hopefully get across to the people there that just because they say they have a better system in the west doesn't make that so or even one that would work for Muslims whether yemeni or not.

remember in America their are over 5 million muslims, parts of Philly and New York have many Americans who became Muslims and who would love to move and live and learn their deen in our homeland. Take time to ask if you can record some of their lives.

Lastly learn from the good practices you see in the professional and educational fields in terms of organisation and systems and processes so that in some small way when you return you can show others that this is what we need to use from western culture and not the ideals and morals of decay.
find me on facebook, My qabilah is strong out in the states, if you need help perhaps their womenfolk can help

yoseff Francis ali ahmed ash sha' ibi

I love the idea and I admire your bravery Amira. I wish you all the best in the outcome of this project.

Hi Amira! Best of luck to you in the US. Just keep in mind that there are a lot of closed minded Americans..but don't let them get you down too much. We are not all like that!!

I want to welcome you to US! I hope you know that I am (and many people) happy to see all colors, religions, types of people here in the US. It makes me happy that people come here whether for short or long trips because we are all immigrants here, really.

I have worked with Amira in Yemen and she is a wonderful and brave young woman. I can tell you as a working photographer that her project will absolutely benefit from additional funding after the $4500, so please keep spreading the word!

Good luck on your project! I think this is truly an important one and I wish you the best on the life journey this will take you on.

There you, go, $4500!

Now go and do it! :)

Your project sounds wonderful, good luck!