اليمن على المفترق

Yemen at the Crossroads

As-Safir

A southern generation knows only discrimination under "unity" — the regime raises a giant flag as "proof" while centralism breeds separatism.

ثقافة الحرب، وحروب الثقافة

The Culture of War and the Wars of Culture

As-Safir

Six rounds of war, hundreds of thousands displaced — Friedman suggests teaching Yemenis "property culture." Who is accountable? This too "up to God"?

اليمن في حروب الآخرين

Yemen in Others' Wars

As-Safir

Two hours from the Afghanistan conference for Yemen—Sanaa demands $50 billion, America offers $63 million, and corruption swallows what arrives.

اليمن: حرب جديدة «من اجل السلام»؟

Yemen: A New War "For Peace"?

As-Safir

The US intervention in Yemen, under the pretext of the "War on Terror," was pre-planned, and the Yemeni regime exploits it to divert attention from internal conflicts and secure aid that does not serve development.

السعودية في حرب اليمنوالرقص بين الثعابين!

Saudi Arabia in the Yemen War and Dancing Among Snakes!

As-Safir

Saleh armed the Houthis in 1994—now frames them as Iran's threat to extract Saudi funding. He dances between snakes.

اليمن بين استمرار الحرب – والوساطات لوقفها

Yemen Between Continued War and Mediation to Stop It

As-Safir

The Yemeni war reveals how conflicts serve regimes by fabricating dangers and suppressing crises, while Arab mediations remain superficial, ignoring the conflict's roots in autocratic rule and marginalization.

اليمن في سجال الخلاصية والقمع

Yemen in the Debate Between Messianism and Repression

As-Safir

The Houthis are banned from "interfering in their own province's affairs" and southerners from managing theirs—the regime promises to end poverty in the Arab world's poorest country.

الحراك الجنوبي اليمني: الوحدة في الديمقراطية

The Yemeni Southern Movement: Unity Through Democracy

As-Safir

Yemeni unity is in deep crisis after the 1994 war imposed northern dominance over the south, pushing the "Southern Movement" to demand democratic federalism as the only way to save unity from secession and chaos.

حال الديمقراطيين العرب: جار الله عمر مثالا

The Condition of Arab Democrats: Jarallah Omar as an Example

He called on religious and secular opposition to work together — then the killer stepped forward and shot him in the chest, believing he was shooting at those goals.

Mao, encens et lune

Mao, Incense and Moon

A chapter from Portrait of the Young Man in Red: a journey to revolutionary Dhofar where snakes are "paper tigers" and frankincense trees are ghosts in the moonlight—and the Front that banned the critique of tribalism returned after defeat to discuss nothing else.