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
Current Analysis Urgent Need for Humanitarian Corridor in Yemen The humanitarian emergency in Yemen continues to worsen. In Aden, the southern port city where local fighters are trying to fend off a Houthi takeover, several neighborhoods have no water or power. Hospitals are begging for basics like antibiotics and bandages. There is no sign of a pause in the co The Editors • 1 min read
Current Analysis Two Resolutions, a Draft Constitution and Late Developments On April 14, three weeks into the Saudi-led air campaign called Operation Decisive Storm, the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2216 [http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/world/middleeast/document-draft-resolution-on-yemen.html]. This legally binding resolution, put forward by Jordan, Sheila Carapico • 8 min read
Current Analysis Open Letter from Yemen Scholars Protesting War We write as scholars concerned with Yemen and as residents/nationals of the United Kingdom and the United States. The military attack by Saudi Arabia, backed by the Gulf Cooperation Council states (but not Oman), Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, the UK and above all the US, is into its third week of bombing an (Author not identified) • 1 min read
Current Analysis A Grim New Phase in Yemen’s Migration History “Yemen’s conflict is getting so bad that some Yemenis are fleeing to Somalia,” read a recent headline at the Vice News website. The article mentions [https://news.vice.com/article/yemens-conflict-is-getting-so-bad-that-some-yemenis-are-fleeing-to-somalia?utm_source=vicenewstwitter] that 32 Yemenis, Marina de Regt • 3 min read
MER Article Lackner, Why Yemen Matters Helen Lackner, ed., Why Yemen Matters (London: Saqi, 2014). The essays in Why Yemen Matters, though written prior to the stunning takeover of much of the country by Ansar Allah, otherwise known as the Houthis, provide an excellent primer on the political and economic crises that underlie those stil Joe Stork • 3 min read
Current Analysis Operation Decisive Storm and the Expanding Counter-Revolution On the night of March 25 one hundred Saudi warplanes bombed strategic targets inside Yemen under the control of the Houthi rebels. A number of countries—the other Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) members minus Oman, as well as Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Morocco and Pakistan—joined the effort either directl John M. Willis • 4 min read
Current Analysis Four Weddings and a Funeral in Yemen On February 21, 2015, the man most countries recognize as president of Yemen, ‘Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, escaped house arrest in Sanaa and fled with his family to the southern city of Aden, which he soon declared the new capital. The Houthi movement, or Ansar Allah, that holds sway in Sanaa insists th Susanne Dahlgren • 11 min read
Current Analysis Yemeni Political Dialogue in Riyadh? On March 10, the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) invited rival Yemeni factions to hold peace talks in Riyadh, the Saudi Royal Court announced [http://www.gulfinthemedia.com/index.php?id=741844&news_type=Top&lang=en ]. Gabriele vom Bruck • 2 min read
Current Analysis Killing the Ambulance Man Sad news came on December 15 from Aden, the port on the southern coast of Yemen. The city had awakened to a day of civil disobedience, called to speed up what Adenis and other southerners hope will be their independence [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer273/poor-peoples-revolution] from the central gover Susanne Dahlgren • 2 min read
MER Article Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik al-Mutawakkil Muhammad ‘Abd al-Malik al-Mutawakkil, Yemeni political thinker, activist and university professor, was assassinated by gunmen on a motorbike on November 2, 2014 in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. Iris Glosemeyer and Anna Würth, researchers of contemporary Yemen based in Berlin, were his friends from th Iris Glosemeyer, Anna Wurth • 5 min read
MER Article The Yemeni UFW Martyr In the summer of 2014, director Diego Luna released Cesar Chavez, a feature-length retelling of the story of the 1973 grape pickers’ strike in California that inspired an international grape boycott and made Cesar Chavez a household name. In the film, the first person killed on a farm worker picket Nadine Naber • 3 min read
