Archive for June, 2008

Yemen’s Houthi rebellion and Bani Hushaish: what’s really going on?

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Since 2004 the Yemeni government have fought several wars in Yemen’s northernmost governorate Sa’da against a movement calling itself The Believing Youth, mostly known as ‘The Houthis’ after its late founder Badr ad-Din al-Houthi. According to the government, the movement is aiming to re-establish the Shia-Zaydi imamate that ruled Yemen until the republican revolution of […]

Yemen’s Failing Democracy

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Another article written by me and published in the brand new magazine ‘The Arab‘, this time about the political crises in Yemen.
Click HERE to read.