Migliori Libri sullo Yemen | Libri sullo stato dello Yemen

A comprehensive introduction to Yemen’s current crises, major players, and potential solutions to an ongoing civil war. In 2014, a tribal alliance from Yemen’s northern regions seized the capital city of Sana’a and overthrew a republic that had ruled since 1962. Known as the Houthi Movement, these rebels are today vying for control, sparring with southern separatist movements and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s political party. Indeed, Yemen-located in the southwest corner of the Arabian peninsula-has become synonymous with civil unrest, sectarian conflict, famine, and rampant disease in recent years. Yet the country has a much deeper history-one that stretches back centuries. In Yemen: What Everyone Needs to Know (R), Asher Orkaby provides a broad-ranging, historical overview of the country and its peoples that focuses in particular on the contemporary situation. He covers the country’s major political figures and ethnic groups, explaining the origins of each and their impact on contemporary national politics. Throughout, he focuses on tribalism, religious dynamics, regional identities, Yemen’s African and Jewish minorities, and the social impact of the Arab Spring on the country’s women and youth. Orkaby also offers readers a window into Yemen’s rich past: its archaeological treasures, its ancient economic prosperity, and its tribal and religious history. He also looks to Yemen’s future, identifying potential avenues through which Yemen can use its promising geographic location, natural resources, and economic potential to achieve stability.

Alfred Jones, un oscuro e timido ittiologo londinese che lavora per l’ente statale di tutela della pesca, viene incaricato da un ricchissimo sceicco yemenita di collaborare al progetto di introdurre il salmone tra le aride montagne dello Yemen. Alfred, consapevole dell’assurdità del progetto, all’inizio rifiuta, ma poi viene esortato ad accettare l’incarico – pena il rischio di licenziamento – dai suoi superiori, e quindi addirittura dal portavoce del Primo ministro inglese, convinto in questo modo di poter sviare l’attenzione dell’opinione pubblica dalle tensioni della guerra in Iraq. Così Fred viene trascinato controvoglia in quest’impresa bizzarra e apparentemente impossibile insieme al carismatico e visionario sceicco e alla sua giovane assistente Harriet. È solo l’inizio di una serie di avventure e disavventure esilaranti e tragicomiche che lo vedranno protagonista tra politici spregiudicati, terroristi islamici, nazionalisti scozzesi, pescatori lobbisti e dubbi sentimentali: Alfred, infatti, partirà per lo Yemen lasciandosi alle spalle un noioso matrimonio senza amore e molte delle certezze che lo hanno guidato fino a quel momento lungo la strada di una vita ordinaria e priva di sorprese.

Expert analysis of Yemen’s social and political crisis, with profound implications for the fate of the Arab World The democratic promise of the 2011 Arab Spring has unraveled in Yemen, triggering a disastrous crisis of civil war, famine, militarization, and governmental collapse with serious implications for the future of the region. Fueled by Arab and Western intervention, the civil war has quickly escalated, resulting in thousands killed and millions close to starvation. Suffering from a collapsed economy, the people of Yemen face a desperate choice between the Huthi rebels on the one side and the internationally recognized government propped up by the Saudi-led coalition and Western arms on the other. In this invaluable analysis, Helen Lackner uncovers the roots of the social and political conflicts that threaten the very survival of the state and its people. With a new preface exploring the U.S.’s central role in the crisis.