Yemen in the Shadow of Transition


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Responding to a diplomatic stalemate and a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, Yemen's civil actors work every day to build peace in fragmented local communities across the country. This book shows how their efforts relate to longstanding justice demands in Yemeni society, and details three decades of alternating elite indifference toward, or strategic engagement with, questions of justice. Exploring the transformative impact of the 2011 uprising and Yemenis' substantive wrestling with questions of justice in the years that followed, leading Yemen scholar Stacey Philbrick Yadav shows how the transitional process was ultimately overtaken by war, and explains why features of the transitional framework nevertheless remain a central reference point for civil actors engaged in peacebuilding today. In the absence of a negotiated settlement, everyday peacebuilding has become a new site for justice work, as an arena in which civil actors enjoy agency and social recognition. Drawing on seventeen years of field research and interviews with civil actors, Yadav positions Yemen's non-combatants not-or not only-as victims of conflict, but as political agents imagining and enacting the justice they wish to see.




Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World


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Compares the crucial role of Arab armies in state building, a decade after the 2011 Arab Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.




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The Arabs


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The Arabs On the Brink of the Grave By: Atif Yusuf This book is an honest objective presentation of the causes of the Arab calamities and social destruction. The author touches on countless areas of Arab struggle. His analytical approach of the Arab plight is presented with the purity and uprightness of character. His criticism of the Arab rulers is free from misrepresentation. The absurdity of the Arab governing system is presented without distortion or falsification. The erroneous governing system of the Arab rulers is tackled with strong mental powers disciplined by thoughtfulness. The author’s intellect demonstrates extensive knowledge of the Arab idiocy in foreign politics. He exposed the falsehood of the Arab rulers and tested their setback by the doctrines of the Quran as a sole path for salvation. The clearness and power with which the writer presented the drawbacks of the Arab rulers convinces the readers’ understanding and the author’s fervor touches their hearts. The author advances a winning eloquence combined with the purity and uprightness of character. He has a commanding narrative style that grabs attention easily. His words are free from pride, and misrepresentation. The eloquence of the writer and the smoothness of his expression captivate the reader and his fervor touches their hearts. The idiocy, treason, and plundering of the Arab rulers are incisively exposed. Without passion or excitement the author has tested human theories and religious doctrines by the Quran. Through a sound knowledge of the Arab mentality and the faith of Islam, the author contests the errors of the Arab ruling systems and exposes the deception of the Arab rulers. Earnest are the efforts the author put forth to draw away the Arab minds from corruption and ungodly lusts




Could the Houthis Be the Next Hizballah?


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The authors analyze the prospect that Iran will further invest in Yemen's Houthis and develop them into an enduring proxy group. The authors examine the history, current relations and trajectory, and possible future of the Houthi-Iran relationship.