Archive for the 'Politics' Category
Yemen’s Houthi rebellion and Bani Hushaish: what’s really going on?
Monday, June 16th, 2008Since 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, 2008Another 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.
An Iran on the Mediterranean?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008I wrote a reply to a friend of mine about Lebanon and figured I might as well publish an edited version here. My issues, as always, comes from how Lebanon’s problems (that is to say the government and the opposition) are portrayed in the media. From here it all looks very simple: The freely-elected and […]
The mess that is Lebanon
Thursday, May 15th, 2008For those who feel like reading a simple and good article about what has actually been going on in Lebanon over the past ten days, should read the linked article written by the Syrian analyst Sami Mobayed. Forget all the nonsense in the headline-driven media about Hizbollahstan and coups.
http://www.mideastviews.com/articleview.php?art=318
The never-ending mess of Iraq
Thursday, April 10th, 2008We are told that “The Surge” in Iraq has been a success as the increase in US troops, in addition to local agreements with wardlords, strongmen, sheikhs and mullahs, has brought the violence in Iraq down considerably. In reality, Iraq has become completely dysfunctional and decentralised and the central government has virtually no control on […]
The Sound of Yemen
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Article published in the brand new magazine ‘The Arab‘ about my last experience before leaving Yemen during Eid 2007.
Click HERE to read.