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A dialogue for the sake of splitting
By: Aref Abdullah Al-Selmi
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I feel sad and disappointed when I see how the opinion leaders, rulers and decision-makers in my homeland have been rendered unable to provide their country with what it needs, all as a result of intense egoism that leads them to abandon national high-mindedness and noble principles in favor of slavish obeisance to all types of alien begging. ...
A Yemeni Women Reflects on Ten Days in France
By: Elham Al-Oqabi for National Yemen The best thing about traveling abroad is that before it teaches you about other people, it teaches you more about yourself. It makes you to know who you are, where exactly you stand, and where you want to go and what you want to be. The best thing about travel is that it makes you to see many places; it puts you in many situations just to locate your pla...
The Tragic Scene of Yemeni Theater
By Tamjid al-Kohali “Theater in Yemen is a painful reality.” With these words, the Yemeni stage actor Yahya Ibrahim began expressing his deep sadness about the current state of Yemeni theater. Ibrahim said that today theatrical performances are very rare. Even when theatrical performances are held, they lack many theatrical qualities. Ibrahim doesn’t deny that Yemeni theater once enjoyed hi...
Citizens Await Compensation in Abyan
By: ziad al-Mahwari At the end of June 2012, the Council of Ministers was approved to established fund to re-build Abyan province after its recent war with al-Qaeda, which caused substantial damage to a number of houses throughout the city. The fund was established by an initial contribution from the government estimated at 10 billion, but so far no noticeable repairs have been made in the prov...
Protocols of Corruption in Yemen
By Mohammed al-Absi Hamid al-Ahmar and Shaher Abdel Haq have acquired an operator license for a mobile phone company costing 20 million dollars. In Sudan, the same license costs 150 million dollars, and in Lebanon it costs one billion dollars. In this way only, most of the country's wealth, resources and fisheries are sold. Many sheikhs of the second and third degree—not sheikhs of first cate...
More and More Unemployment!
By Aref Al-Selmi
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The number of jobless people in Yemen increases every year due to economic deterioration and failed government policies. The Yemeni academic and vocational institutions graduate many students each year, but unfortunately most of these graduates are not qualified to meet the requirements of the local and international market. In addition to the myriad p...
Yemeni Rights Violated by Its Rights Defenders
BY Asma al-Mohattwari Most Yemeni economists agree that Yemen does not lack money. What Yemen does lack is an ability to absorb the money received from foreign aid. Yemen has little ability to spend granted funds according to elaborate, deliberate plans on meaningful projects, or in ways that positively help the Yemeni people achieve their objectives of dignified living. In 2013, the numbe...
A War Uncalled For in Dammaj
By Andrea Christoph
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With civilians being gassed to death while sleeping in Syria and turmoil all throughout the Middle East, it is little wonder that turmoil in a small village in Northen Yemen can be overlooked. But what makes this situation different is the siege on Dammaj is being waged on a group who take no part in politics or the criticism of leading rulers....
A Demoralized Military Cannot Protect Yemeni Security
Fragile Security in a Desensitized Society Nearly two years into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) sponsored transition, Yemen’s military remains divided and suffering from chronic low morale. Once Interim President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi took office in February 2012, local analysts insisted that the overwhelming emphasis on marginalizing family members of former president Ali Abdullah...
Yemeni Women Take Up A Centuries-Old Struggle
Asma al-Mohattwari Some people will tell you that it is the fault of Eve that Adam at the fruit of the forbidden tree. From the beginning of the humanity, women have suffered unequal and unfair treatment. Some of this treatment can be traced back to the earliest stories of the world’s religions. Everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve, the first two human beings that God created to live in a ...
Diving Along Yemen’s Coasts Provides a Fascinating Experience
By Tamjid al-Kohalni Picture another world filled with uncountable mysteries and innumerable secrets: a world where you can live an adventure and discover amazing things. This is the watery kingdom of the ocean, the world under the water, accessible best through the sport of diving. Diving is considered a hobby, an industry, and a modern sport. Humans have dived underwater for thousands of yea...
Violence must stop
By British Ambassador, Jane Marriott Yemen’s National Dialogue continues to make progress and the closing plenary has re-started its work after the break for the Id al-Adha. But it still faces considerable challenges: it is time to reach agreement where possible and move to the next steps. There is a lot of valuable work done by the National Dialogue that needs to be put into action. I was...
“ I don’t know if we’re going to make it”: Female Students of Dammaj voice their reality
By Andrea Christoph Holed up in a makeshift bunker, crowded to the brim, the women and children of Dammaj are thankful for a brief quiet after the storm of war. For weeks they have lived with the sky raining hot metal upon them, the ground shaking beneath them and death all around. One American woman, whom I will call Umm Ahmed, has endured more than one war against Dammaj, but “ this one is th...
The Conflict Between Unity and Independence
Yafea News Yemen’s economic activity centers on decisions over contracts for oil and gas, as well as internationally funded projects. When these decisions are all made in Sana’a, it is easy for those in Sana’a to take all the benefits that follow these decisions. The true reason behind all of this grabbing is the approach of the dialogue to the new proposed federal system, which would include t...
Cemetery Visits Pacify the Soul
Asma al-Mohattwari “Death does not hurt…the dead…but hurts the living!” So says a line from Arabic poet Mahmoud Darwish, in his poem “In the Presence of Absence”. Darwish notes the painful nature of death, but observes that it is the living who feel this pain. The dead, who have already left this life, do not feel the sadness experienced by those who loved them, those who mourn for them, those ...
Al-Ghadeer Eid Celebration Raises Objections Among Yemenis
Asma al-Mohattwari Recent attacks against Ansar Allah, a subgroup of the Houthis, during preparation and gathering for the al-Ghadeer day celebration, did not affect the celebrants’ psyche. Tens of thousands celebrated the holiday in different governorates around Yemen, displaying their unbridled desire to commemorate al-Ghadeer. For the Houthis, this holiday is a great religious occasion for t...
Human Rights Groups Release Investigation Reports into US Targeted Killings: A Guide to the Issues
Today, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) released two detailed studies of US targeted killings in Yemen and Pakistan, putting forward specific evidence of civilian deaths and legal violations by the United States. The reports are long (HRW’s is 97 pages, AI’s is 74), address a complex range of issues, and describe their investigations into specific strikes at length. This...
MI5 chief says al Qaeda from Pakistan, Yemen most dangerous
London: Britain Security Service MI5’s General Director Andrew Parker has warned of the danger that British citizens are exposed to from Islamist terrorists, adding that exposure of US and UK intelligence’s “reach and limit” posed enormous damage to public security. Speaking to the Royal United Services Institute in London, the intelligence chief said “thousands of Islamist extremists in the ...
Yemen’s Quota: Success for International Community or Yemeni Women?
By Samaa Al Hamdani On September 15, Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi wrote his first-ever op-ed in hopes of reassuring the Yemeni people of the current political transition’s progress. The article, published in Yemen Times and available only in English, highlights the role of women during the transition and praises the status of women in Yemen. More importantly, the President indirectly...
Yemen’s International Friends
By Jane Marriott There are two significant events for Yemen this week outside the borders of this country. Both take place in New York. The first is the Friends of Yemen conference on Wednesday 25 September; the second a discussion on Yemen in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Friday 27September. Both are excellent opportunities for Yemen to show the world of what it is made. It is...
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By: Aref Abdullah Al-Selmi
By: Elham Al-Oqabi for National Yemen
The best thing about traveling abroad is that before it teaches you about other people, it teaches you more about yourself. It makes you to know who you are, where exactly you stand, and where you want to go and what you want to be.
The best thing about travel is that it makes you to see many places; it puts you in many situations just to locate your pla...
By Tamjid al-Kohali
“Theater in Yemen is a painful reality.” With these words, the Yemeni stage actor Yahya Ibrahim began expressing his deep sadness about the current state of Yemeni theater.
Ibrahim said that today theatrical performances are very rare. Even when theatrical performances are held, they lack many theatrical qualities.
Ibrahim doesn’t deny that Yemeni theater once enjoyed hi...
By: ziad al-Mahwari
At the end of June 2012, the Council of Ministers was approved to established fund to re-build Abyan province after its recent war with al-Qaeda, which caused substantial damage to a number of houses throughout the city. The fund was established by an initial contribution from the government estimated at 10 billion, but so far no noticeable repairs have been made in the prov...
By Mohammed al-Absi
Hamid al-Ahmar and Shaher Abdel Haq have acquired an operator license for a mobile phone company costing 20 million dollars. In Sudan, the same license costs 150 million dollars, and in Lebanon it costs one billion dollars. In this way only, most of the country's wealth, resources and fisheries are sold.
Many sheikhs of the second and third degree—not sheikhs of first cate...
By Aref Al-Selmi
BY Asma al-Mohattwari
Most Yemeni economists agree that Yemen does not lack money. What Yemen does lack is an ability to absorb the money received from foreign aid. Yemen has little ability to spend granted funds according to elaborate, deliberate plans on meaningful projects, or in ways that positively help the Yemeni people achieve their objectives of dignified living.
In 2013, the numbe...
By Andrea Christoph
Fragile Security in a Desensitized Society
Nearly two years into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) sponsored transition, Yemen’s military remains divided and suffering from chronic low morale.
Once Interim President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi took office in February 2012, local analysts insisted that the overwhelming emphasis on marginalizing family members of former president Ali Abdullah...
Asma al-Mohattwari
Some people will tell you that it is the fault of Eve that Adam at the fruit of the forbidden tree.
From the beginning of the humanity, women have suffered unequal and unfair treatment. Some of this treatment can be traced back to the earliest stories of the world’s religions. Everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve, the first two human beings that God created to live in a ...
By Tamjid al-Kohalni
Picture another world filled with uncountable mysteries and innumerable secrets: a world where you can live an adventure and discover amazing things. This is the watery kingdom of the ocean, the world under the water, accessible best through the sport of diving.
Diving is considered a hobby, an industry, and a modern sport. Humans have dived underwater for thousands of yea...
By British Ambassador, Jane Marriott
Yemen’s National Dialogue continues to make progress and the closing plenary has re-started its work after the break for the Id al-Adha. But it still faces considerable challenges: it is time to reach agreement where possible and move to the next steps. There is a lot of valuable work done by the National Dialogue that needs to be put into action.
I was...
By Andrea Christoph
Holed up in a makeshift bunker, crowded to the brim, the women and children of Dammaj are thankful for a brief quiet after the storm of war. For weeks they have lived with the sky raining hot metal upon them, the ground shaking beneath them and death all around. One American woman, whom I will call Umm Ahmed, has endured more than one war against Dammaj, but “ this one is th...
Yafea News
Yemen’s economic activity centers on decisions over contracts for oil and gas, as well as internationally funded projects. When these decisions are all made in Sana’a, it is easy for those in Sana’a to take all the benefits that follow these decisions. The true reason behind all of this grabbing is the approach of the dialogue to the new proposed federal system, which would include t...
Asma al-Mohattwari
“Death does not hurt…the dead…but hurts the living!” So says a line from Arabic poet Mahmoud Darwish, in his poem “In the Presence of Absence”. Darwish notes the painful nature of death, but observes that it is the living who feel this pain. The dead, who have already left this life, do not feel the sadness experienced by those who loved them, those who mourn for them, those ...
Asma al-Mohattwari
Recent attacks against Ansar Allah, a subgroup of the Houthis, during preparation and gathering for the al-Ghadeer day celebration, did not affect the celebrants’ psyche. Tens of thousands celebrated the holiday in different governorates around Yemen, displaying their unbridled desire to commemorate al-Ghadeer. For the Houthis, this holiday is a great religious occasion for t...
Today, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) released two detailed studies of US targeted killings in Yemen and Pakistan, putting forward specific evidence of civilian deaths and legal violations by the United States.
The reports are long (HRW’s is 97 pages, AI’s is 74), address a complex range of issues, and describe their investigations into specific strikes at length. This...
London: Britain Security Service MI5’s General Director Andrew Parker has warned of the danger that British citizens are exposed to from Islamist terrorists, adding that exposure of US and UK intelligence’s “reach and limit” posed enormous damage to public security.
Speaking to the Royal United Services Institute in London, the intelligence chief said “thousands of Islamist extremists in the ...
By Samaa Al Hamdani
On September 15, Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi wrote his first-ever op-ed in hopes of reassuring the Yemeni people of the current political transition’s progress. The article, published in Yemen Times and available only in English, highlights the role of women during the transition and praises the status of women in Yemen. More importantly, the President indirectly...
By Jane Marriott
There are two significant events for Yemen this week outside the borders of this country. Both take place in New York. The first is the Friends of Yemen conference on Wednesday 25 September; the second a discussion on Yemen in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Friday 27September.
Both are excellent opportunities for Yemen to show the world of what it is made. It is...
