MER Article Roger Owen Roger Owen, a former contributing editor of Middle East Report who taught at Oxford University and Harvard University for over half a century, died on December 22, 2018 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 83. A specialist in the economic, political and social history of the modern Middle Arbella Bet-Shlimon • 4 min read
newLackner MER Article Helen Lackner, Yemen in Crisis: The Road to War Few people from the West know Yemen better than Helen Lackner. Her experience and insights make this book essential for understanding the multiple dimensions of Yemen’s crisis. Joe Stork • 5 min read
MER Article Progressive Surge Propels Turning Point in US Policy on Yemen The US House of Representatives passed a potentially historic resolution on February 13, 2019, calling for an end to US military support for the Saudi-led coalition’s intervention in Yemen that began in 2015. This long overdue Congressional action to constrain executive war-making, however, would no Danny Postel • 12 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 American Interventionism and the Geopolitical Roots of Yemen’s Catastrophe The region’s current pattern of violence is rooted in the repeated US efforts to re-make the region to its advantage through the use of coercive force since 2001. Washington’s interventions and proliferating counterterrorism operations around the region—along with the new Arab wars that followed the Waleed Hazbun • 13 min read
MER Article The Saudis Bring War to Yemen’s East A new phase of the war appears to be unfolding in al-Mahra, the far eastern governorate of southern Yemen on the Indian Ocean next to Oman. In 2017 Saudi Arabian troops suddenly rolled through the streets of al-Ghaydha, the governorate capital, taking over the regional airport and announcing that th Susanne Dahlgren • 15 min read
MER Article Ambitions of a Global Gulf From the wars in Syria and Libya to the catastrophic bombing campaign in Yemen, the Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been the main Arab forces involved in the region’s current conflicts. The Gulf also increasingly shapes the political and economic policies of other A Adam Hanieh • 13 min read
MER Article Yemen and the Imperial Investments in War The killing of Jamal Khashoggi and the catastrophic war in Yemen has provoked intense and unprecedented public questioning about American ties to the Saudi regime in late 2018, particularly the role of American arms and military support in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. But rethinking the place of arms Priya Satia • 12 min read
MER Article Yemen’s Women Confront War’s Marginalization Despite advances gained from women’s strong participation in the 2011 uprisings against the dictatorship of Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Salih, and despite the fact that they continue to play an essential role in the day-to-day survival of their communities, three years of war and militariz Afrah Nasser • 12 min read
MER Article The Saudi Coalition’s Food War on Yemen Millions of Yemenis face starvation as a result of the war. In August 2018, more than 51 civilians were killed, at least 40 of them young children, when a bomb hit a school bus. Yet as devastating as these strikes have been, more deadly to the Yemeni people overall are the coalition strikes targetin Jeannie Sowers • 11 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
MER Article Editorial February’s Congressional passage of a historic resolution to end US support for the Saudi-led coalition’s war in Yemen was an important step toward ending that war and curtailing US military interventionism in the Middle East more generally. That House resolution invokes the War Power Resolution of 1973, which The Editors • 2 min read
