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Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Stacey Philbrick Yadav is associate professor of international relations at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.

The Houthis’ ‘Sovereign Solidarity’ with Palestine — Yemenis drive past a large billboard with a picture depicting the navy destroyers of foreign countries including the US and UK, and the words “Navy coalition will be defeated,” December 31, 2023, in Sana’a, Yemen. Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images

MER Article

The Houthis’ ‘Sovereign Solidarity’ with Palestine

Since October 7, Yemen has made an unexpected return from the margins of global attention. The Houthi movement’s seemingly ad hoc seizure of shipping vessels in the Red Sea, which began in early November in response to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, quickly became a concerted campaign to disrupt

Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 5 min read

The Houthis’ ‘Sovereign Solidarity’ with Palestine — Yemenis drive past a large billboard with a picture depicting the navy destroyers of foreign countries including the US and UK, and the words “Navy coalition will be defeated,” December 31, 2023, in Sana’a, Yemen. Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images

Current Analysis

The Houthis’ ‘Sovereign Solidarity’ with Palestine

Situating the Red Sea campaign in Yemen’s past and present.

Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 5 min read

MER Article

Roundtable: Three Women Activists Advancing Peace in Yemen

The growing public awareness of the war in Yemen—and the historic Congressional invocation of the War Powers Act this winter—could not have occurred without the dedicated activism of Yemeni Americans and their allies. A contributing editor to this issue, Stacey Philbrick Yadav, spoke to three activi

Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 12 min read

MER Article

Toward a Just Peace in Yemen

At every stage, the scale of suffering has been preventable, and yet pervasive misunderstandings—and some deliberate mischaracterizations—mean that the war has reached a deadly stalemate.

Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Jillian Schwedler • 16 min read

Current Analysis

Yemen Dispatch

The eruption of fighting by rival factions in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on January 28 provides distressing additional evidence that Yemen’s war is best understood as a series of mini-wars reflecting the intersection of diverse domestic drivers of conflict and Gulf regional fragmentation.

Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 7 min read

MER Article

The Ties That Bind

Yemeni-American activist Rabyaah al-Thaibani was born in Ta‘izz, Yemen’s largest city, in 1977. She moved to the United States as a child to join her father, who was working nights cleaning office buildings in Manhattan. She grew up in Brooklyn, attended Columbia University and since has worked in c

Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 9 min read

Current Analysis

Nobel Nota Bene

From Little League banquets to honorary doctorates, it may well be in the nature of award committees to tilt toward hyperbole. Elevating the legacy of the recipient is, among other things, an affirmation of the importance of those who can recognize importance when they see it. The committee that sel

Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 3 min read

Current Analysis

The Moral Economy of Distance in the Yemeni Crisis

In discussions of the ongoing war in Yemen, Yemeni activists [http://supportyemen.org/video/color-injustice/], aid organizations [http://www.msf.org/article/yemen-crisis-update-%E2%80%93-27-april-0] and human rights groups [http://www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/yemen] are struggling to push the dir

Jillian Schwedler, Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 5 min read

MER Article

The Breakdown of the GCC Initiative

On September 21, 2014, fighters of Ansar Allah, loyal to the Houthi movement based in the northern highlands of Sa‘ada, conquered Yemen’s capital. Militants occupied the home of 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman, a leader of the 2011 uprising against the regime of President ‘Ali ‘Abdalla

Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Sheila Carapico • 12 min read

Current Analysis

Tawakkul Karman as Cause and Effect

Political activist Tawakkul Karman has brought Yemen’s revolution to New York, speaking directly on October 20 with Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and organizing rallies at the United Nations headquarters in lower Manhattan, the largest of which is slated for the afternoon of October 21. The purpose

Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 9 min read

Current Analysis

No Pink Slip for Salih

With cameras and Twitter feeds trained on Tahrir Square in Cairo, a series of large opposition protests have unfolded in an eponymous square in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, as well as other major cities across the country. The protests have been organized and coordinated by a cross-ideological amalg

Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 13 min read

MER Article

Does a Vote Equal a Voice?

In a second-floor classroom overlooking a flowering courtyard filled with groups of students sharing textbooks and snacks, a young Yemeni woman in her late teens says simply: “[No political party] cares about us, or about the country.” The “us” to whom she refers are the other young women in the roo

Stacey Philbrick Yadav • 15 min read