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Hanging by a Thread—The Red Sea Blockade and Jordan's Fragile Garment Industry
Bangladeshi women at work in a Chinese-owned garment factory in Jordan, 2024. Katharina GrüeneislFig.1 Changing import and export routes in Jordan’s garment sector in reaction to the Red Sea blockade. (Source: Lagarde, Grüeneisl and Labadi 2024)View over the Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT) in June 2024. Katharina GrüeneislMigrant workers walk back to their dormitories in the Al-Hassan (Irbid) industrial zone, 2024. Katharina Grüeneisl
MER Article

Hanging by a Thread—The Red Sea Blockade and Jordan's Fragile Garment Industry

Houthi attacks have revealed an industrial paradox.
Katharina Grüneisl, Taher Labadi • 15 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
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