Archive for the 'Yemen' Category

A critique of the typical media analysis of Yemen

Monday, September 14th, 2009

http://www.alarabiya.net/views/2009/09/12/84723.html
Is Yemen Really A Centralized State?
Brian O’Neill
Three separate crises – the newly intense Huthi rebellion in Yemen’s north, an increasingly violent secession movement in the south, and the pervasive threat of the second generation of Al-Qaeda – are tearing Yemen apart. Moreover, Yemen has to deal with these crises against the backdrop of a […]

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.

The Sound of Yemen

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Article published in the brand new magazine ‘The Arab‘ about my last experience before leaving Yemen during Eid 2007.
Click HERE to read.

A Stranger in her own City

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Last week I saw the crazies and most outrageous documentary (by Yemeni standards) I have ever seen from Yemen. The 30-minute film by Khadija as-Salami follows a 13 year old girl who refuses to wear the veil and is so cheeky, quick-witted, and happy that she somehow gets away with it, at least for a […]

More pictures from Yemen

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Have added a new gallery with a mix of pictures from Yemen from July to October:
http://torstein.worren.info/images/travel/2007-yemen_various/index.html