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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaProspects for Yemen in 2019 and beyond
The fear and terror induced by this situation, combined with unbearable survival conditions are creating a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow Britain is a bad influence on the Gulf states – an interview with David Wearing
Could Britain ever promote democracy in the Gulf? Only if it turns its own foreign policy away from neoliberalism...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFamine in Yemen: long announced, now on our screens
What are world leaders doing? Where is the ‘international community’ Yemenis so often appeal to?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe West’s approach to Saudi Arabia: ‘one step forward, two steps back’
Western powers are actively enabling the very human rights violations they seek to expose.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHodeida: prospects of humanitarian catastrophe brings Yemen back into the news
Was the decision to carry out the offensive in the summer, when living conditions are the worst for the population,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAgainst solidarity of the powerful
Is it true that western powers’ silence over Yemen stands in opposition to their solidarity for the Syrians? Or, or...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHas the Yemeni state ceased to exist?
Is it the disappearance of the Yemeni state that has resulted in the suffering of Yemenis?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWretched third anniversary of international intervention in Yemen: the Saudi-led coalition and humanitarian disaster. Part 2
Trump’s recent senior appointments suggest an increasingly virulent anti-Iranian strategy which certainly coincides...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn a wretched third anniversary of the international intervention in Yemen, is the rise of the Huthis irresistible? Part 1
Only the Huthis would ‘celebrate’ three years of war with a theatrical performance including singing, dancing and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIs Sweden complicit in war crimes in Yemen?
Despite the documented crimes of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Sweden continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and...
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Published in: 50.50Activist Reham Al-Bader’s death in Yemen shows the dangers women face providing lifelines in conflict
Women in Yemen are challenging the death and destruction around them, often paying a heavy price. Yet, their voices...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCounter-terrorism: new UK strategy must learn obvious lessons
Since 2001, Britain has compromised its passion for the rights of people in the name of counter-terrorism, thereby...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow Saudi Arabia and Iran shared the rise and fall of Ali Abdullah Saleh
The commonly held view that the conflicts in Yemen – and elsewhere in the region – are a proxy war between Iran and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYou've kept your power, Arab rulers, but at what cost?
Let us never forget that those who make peaceful uprisings impossible will eventually make violent revolution irresistible.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNot a Saudi ‘Arab spring’: Mohammad Bin Salman, a threat not a reformer [Part 2]
Mohammad bin Salman is now MENA’s main threat to peace, stability, and hope for democratization in the Arab world.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen: 2017 in review
2017 has been a year of utter despair in light of countless human rights atrocities committed on multi-fronts.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWestern complicity is fuelling Yemen’s humanitarian crisis
A besieged and starved population has been pushed to the brink of famine. The UK, US and France need to re-evaluate...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCritical voices in critical times: revolution without revolutionaries, an interview with Asef Bayat
Asef Bayat talks about revolutions and revolutionary ideas, the place of ordinary people in social transformation,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFamine in Yemen finally reaches western headlines
While it is worth discussing whether the missile in the November 4 attack came from Iran in the first place, the...
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Published in: HomeYemen: a tragic tale of humanitarian hypocrisy
Humanitarian crises around the world will fail to be resolved if the providers of aid are also the perpetrators of...