Yemeni society is torn between two warring sects. Today, for every step Yemen takes toward democracy, it takes two steps back toward a sectarian conflict the…
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Instead of first experiencing America through a school or a hospital, most people in Wessab first experienced America through the terror of a drone strike….
If you live in Yemen, the golden rule is to expect anything any time. That, however, does not include expecting your hometown village — one…
It was like a scene from a great novel: Yemen’s most famous feminist screaming incandescently at the country’s most powerful tribal sheikh. Cameramen gathered round,…
SANAA — “Thawra” (revolution) has been on the tongues of Yemenis for the past two years, but revolutionary changes tend to move at a glacial…
“If we seek a country in which Nuaman al-Hudhayfi is equal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, then we must rid ourselves at once, and…
ZINJIBAR, Yemen — Last June, the Zinjibar town souk in Abyan province felt like an ancient cemetery. Footsteps were the only sound to be heard,…
Southern hostilities growing ahead of National Dialogue In a country where American drone strikes have killed hundreds of civilians and Al Qaeda in the Arabian…
Yemen’s political parties, along with all new and traditional elements in Yemen, diverge and differ to the point where their agendas, methods and goals conflict….
When I first met Ali Salem al-Beidh in June last year, I was struck by the enthusiasm and energy of the 73-year-old. In his office…
