A Resource for Understanding, Now, Yemen

After Tunisia and Egypt and along with Jordan and Syria, we find ourselves reading and hearing about civil unrest in Yemen, a country we have also relatively recently been reading and hearing about in connection with Al-Quaeda terrorism. 

The online English edition of the German Newspaper, Der Spiegel, has published an article bearing on one of the problems the nation is facing, the war in its north. The article, “The Plight of Northern Yemen. A Life of Conflict, Dust and Ruins,” can be found at:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,74254,00.html#ref=nlint

Accompanying the article are some “RELATED SPIEGEL ONLINE LINKS,” to the following articles.

Photo Gallery: Life Amid the Ruins in Northern Yemen

‘Operation Scorched Earth’: A US Hand in Yemen’s Civil War (12/03/2010)

East of Aden: A President Struggles to Keep Yemen Together (11/11/2010)

Unraveling a Terror Plot: Terror Investigators Hunt for Yemen Bomb-Makers (11/01/2010)

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About Richard E. Hennessey

I am the founding director of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Merrimack College in NOrth Andover, Massachusetts. My primary interests in Islam lie in Islamic theology and in the similarities and dissimilarities between and among it, Christian theology, and classical philosophy, Greek, Islamic, and Western.
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