In 1929, in the village of Al-Bardouni in the Dhamar Governorate in northern Yemen, Abdullah Saleh Al-Bardouni was born. He did not know that he would carry the shadow of his village in his name, but he would make his voice transcend its borders to distant horizons. It was his fate to live in the dark since the age of five, after he contracted smallpox, which caused him to lose his sight. However, life gave him, in return, a third eye that sees with penetrating insight, beyond the limits of ordinary vision.