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Revolutionary Junctures: Documenting the Yemeni Uprising on Film
![[The Life March arrives in Change Square, Sana'a. Photo by Ammar Basha 2011]](/content_images/3/sm_Bashaarticlephoto.jpg "[The Life March arrives in Change Square, Sana'a. Photo by Ammar Basha 2011]")
The two films presented here, “One day in the heart of the revolution ” and “Another day in the heart of the revolution,” provide snapshots of the Yemeni uprising in 2011. As a filmmaker, I wanted to show Yemenis who have taken to the streets, the ordinary citizens who fought for change against overwhelming odds. While Al-Jazeera and other international media outlets focused on the calculated remarks of politicians and political analysts, I sought to capture the voices of the revolutionaries, the hope, anger, frustration, and resolve that are the true power behind the Yemeni uprising. At the same time, these films endeavor to document not just people’s physical and ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Targeted Killing: The Secret Bureaucracy of Targeted Killing
![[Soldier from 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, conducts a night raid on 18 October 2007 in Baghdad. Image by Spc. Jeffery Sandstrum]](/content_images/3/sm_nightraidafd.jpg "[Soldier from 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, conducts a night raid on 18 October 2007 in Baghdad. Image by Spc. Jeffery Sandstrum]")
[This is the fifth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar. Click here for the introduction to the roundtable.] Three US citizens were killed in Yemen in 2011 by drone strikes carried out under the auspices of the government’s targeted killing program. They were neither charged with any crime nor brought before a judge. The killings were carried out by the executive branch acting alone, with no oversight from the courts and no public presentation of evidence. ...
Keep Reading »Egypt and Yemen Developments: Interviews with Hossam Bahgat and Atiaf al-Wazir
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Recently, the international media’s attention was on Egyptian revolutionaries asking for the military junta to step down; But as news that the parliamentary elections were about to precede as planned, attention shifted to what the political structure in the Egypt of the near future and in the long term will look like. But What about myriad of issues human rights and Tahrir activist raised in the post Mubarak regime? Professor Saba Mahmoud spoke with Hossam Bahgat, founder and director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights about early election trends and how his organization has been challenging the military’s repression and continuation of status quoi ...
Keep Reading »State Sanctioned Killings
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It is now an undisputed fact, confirmed by President Obama: the United States has executed two American citizens far away from zones of actual armed conflict and without due process. More than anything, the targeted killings of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan in Yemen represent serious challenges to the United States’ reputation for abiding by the rule of law. The killings further complicate US foreign policy in a region currently witnessing bloody revolutions and uprisings motivated by a desire for stronger protection of human rights. It is hard to escape the impression that Obama’s unlawful targeted killings program will ultimately stain this administration’s ...
Keep Reading »Entrevista a Fawaz Trabulsi, historiador y escritor libanes: Siria, Yemen y la Primavera Arabe
![[Fawwaz Traboulsi. Image from nextlevelpictures.com]](/content_images/3/sm_fawwazspanish.jpg "[Fawwaz Traboulsi. Image from nextlevelpictures.com]")
[This interview was conducted by Ahmad Shokr and Anjali Kamat, and translated/published in Spanish by www.rebelion.org] Entrevista a Fawaz Trabulsi, historiador y escritor libanés: Siria, Yemen y la Primavera Árabe [Traducido para Rebelion por Loles Olivan.] Ahmad Shokr y Anjali Kamat (AS y AK): El pueblo sirio ha estado resistiendo desde hace meses y sigue saliendo a las calles a pesar de que la represión va en aumento. ¿Cómo caracterizaría el levantamiento en Siria y hacia dónde cree que se dirige? Fawaz Trabulsi (FT): La gente con la que he hablado en Siria me dice que la moral está muy alta. La gente es muy optimista. Creo que les ...
Keep Reading »Escaping Mumana'a and the US-Saudi Counter-Revolution: Syria, Yemen, and Visions of Democracy (Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi)
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Ahmad Shokr and Anjali Kamat (AS&AK): The Syrian people have been resisting for months now and keep coming out on the streets despite escalating repression. How would you characterize the uprising in Syria and where do you think it is heading? Fawwaz Traboulsi (FT): People I’ve talked to in Syria tell me that spirits are very high. People are very optimistic. I think they are moved by the certainty that this regime cannot remain. Now that’s not necessarily going to happen soon, if it happens at all. And if it does, it will not necessarily be a comprehensive regime change. But people are now serious that the time has come to end the Ba‘th regime in Syria, which ...
Keep Reading »Postcards from the Yemen Uprising
![[Green Uprising: Plastic bottles used to construct a tent. The colors reflect the Yemeni Flag. Image by Mohamed Al Haj]](/content_images/3/sm_GreenUprising.jpg "[Green Uprising: Plastic bottles used to construct a tent. The colors reflect the Yemeni Flag. Image by Mohamed Al Haj]")
[This series of images from Sana'a, Yemen was taken by Dr. Mohamed Al Haj of Sana'a University during June, 2011.] [A man with his daughter on their way to protests, Friday, June 3rd]
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Abdul-Ghani Al-Iryani on Saleh Departure
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This is an interview conducted with Abdul-Ghani Al-Iryani on Monday, June 6, in regards to President Ali Abdallah Saleh's departure from Yemen. The interview addresses the events surrounding his departure to Saudi Arabia, highlighting the possibilities of regime change and the role US foreign policy. Transcripts of the interview follow the below video. Thousands of people in Yemen are rejoicing at the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The embattled leader is reportedly in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment after being injured in a rocket attack on his presidential compound. Saleh temporarily ceded power to his vice president on Saturday night. His nephew ...
Keep Reading »Ongoing Reports On Escalating Events in Yemen . . . (This Weekend)
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Follow our ongoing reports from San'a, Yemen on our Twitter feed here (hashtag: #JadYemen) or in the right column of our homepage. For historical and contemporary background to today's event, visit Jadaliyya's Yemen Page. Here's what we have so far on the feed from both yesterday (June 3) and today (June 4). If electricity holds where our reports are coming from, we'll keep at it. Jadaliyya Tweets from San'a, Yemen Friday June 3 [10:15 AM EST] Conflicting reports of Saleh's injury/death during an attack on mosque within presidential palace. Suheil TV in Yemen reported Saleh dead. AP reports he has a head wound. GPC (ruling party) claims ...
Keep Reading »Yemen Update: May 27, 2011
![[Yemeni riot police attacking protesters in San'a. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_heydemannyemenupdate19.jpg "[Yemeni riot police attacking protesters in San'a. Image from unknown archive.]")
Yemen’s uprising, which began in January with small, peaceful demonstrations, has now brought the country to the brink of civil war. On May 23, clashes broke out in the capital city, Sanaa, between army units loyal to President Ali Abdallah Saleh and opposition militias loyal to opposition leader and Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, head of the Hashid tribal federation. By May 26, the death toll from the fighting approached 100, and further escalation seemed inevitable. Opposition supporters and army units fought for control of key government buildings, and tribesmen loyal to Sheikh al-Ahmar moved from the countryside into Sanaa to reinforce pro-Hashid militias. After months of ...
Keep Reading »A Critique of Reporting on the Middle East
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I’ve spent most of the last eight years working in Iraq and also in Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, and other countries in the Muslim world. So all my work has taken place in the shadow of the war on terror and has in fact been thanks to this war, even if I’ve labored to disprove the underlying premises of this war. In a way my work has still served to support the narrative. I once asked my editor at the New York Times Magazine if I could write about a subject outside the Muslim world. He said even if I was fluent in Spanish and an expert on Latin America I wouldn’t be published if it wasn’t about jihad. Too often consumers of mainstream media are victims of a fraud. You ...
Keep Reading »Al-Maqaleh's Betrayal: Translation and Commentary
The Betrayal My faith in poetry is betrayed, as blood, gushing from the heart of the square, now masks the face of words My eyes can no longer make out the shape of things, the tone of things Blood, blood, and more blood It shrouds my soul, my tongue it envelopes the horizon and stains people’s bread, falling on plates, coffee cups, and the eyes of children. * * * What dark shadow casts its corpse across our homeland, in this city made of light? What day long bloody hours lurk over the public square, in a time of darkness, hunting for young men at the age of youthful dreams and the ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Stephen Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen
Stephen W. Day, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled National Union. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Stephen Day (SD): This book had a long gestation period, so answering this question is a bit complicated. I would say the book has been more than ten years in the making. It originates with my doctoral thesis at Georgetown University. I started field research in Yemen in 1995, five years after the country’s national ...
Keep Reading »American Empire and the Good Life: Hypocrisy and Fantasy at Home and Abroad
On television, we watch attractive lovers drinking red wine in a lush New Zealand vineyard. Cut. Syrian soldiers drag a body down the street. Incongruous images like these aren’t just the stuff of late-night television viewing; equally discordant scenes, "links," flash up on computer screens where many of us surf. In fact, just about everywhere you look, advertisements for the "good life" coincide, with almost naturalized self-evidence, with registrations of another ...
Keep Reading »Breaking Point? Yemen's Southern Question
[The following is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Yemen.] Executive Summary and Recommendations Ten months of popular protest spiked by periodic outbursts of violence have done little to clarify Yemen’s political future. Persistent street protests so far have failed to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh or bring about genuine institutional reform. The country is more deeply divided between pro- and anti-Saleh forces than ever, its economy is in tatters ...
Keep Reading »ACLU Statement on Killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi
[The following statement was issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on 30 September 2011.] NEW YORK – U.S. airstrikes in Yemen today killed Anwar Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen who has never been charged with any crime. ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said, "The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law. As we've seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial ...
Keep Reading »Report of the High Commissioner on OHCHR’s visit to Yemen
[The following is the latest from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Yemen.] Report of the High Commissioner on OHCHR’s Visit to Yemen Summary A delegation from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) visited Yemen from 28 June to 6 July 2011 to assess the human rights situation in the country. As a result of nine days of extensive meetings and consultations with representatives from the Government and civil society in the cities of Aden, Sana’a and Ta’izz, ...
Keep Reading »The Newly Formed National Governing Council: Will it Govern in a New Way?
Today, 17 August, Yemen's opposition groups met in the Grand Hall at Sana'a University, amidst tight security, for the formation of a national governing council to unite various groups in one legitimate opposition voice. The 1,000 members could only enter the Grand Hall after submitting their identification and obtaining their name cards. The Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), Yemen's main opposition coalition, began circulating the idea for the governing council for a couple of weeks, and discussions have ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Toby Jones on Saudi Arabia's Role in Bahrain and Yemen
This is an interview conducted with Toby C. Jones on Thursday, June 16, in regards to Saudi Arabia's counter-revolutionary role in both Bahrain and Yemen. Transcripts of the interview follow the below video. While the United States remains heavily involved in the Libya conflict, it has been noticeably silent on the violent suppression of popular uprisings against autocratic regimes in Bahrain and Yemen, both of which are close allies of Saudi Arabia. In March, Bahrain called in Saudi troops to help ...
Keep Reading »Yemen in the Wake of Saleh's Departure: Ongoing Updates from San'a
Follow our ongoing reports from our affiliates in San'a, Yemen below as well on our Twitter feed here (hashtag: #JadYemen). Click here for updates from Friday (June 3) and Saturday (June 4). For historical and contemporary background to today's event, visit Jadaliyya's Yemen Page. Below is what we have so far on the feed for today. If electricity holds where our reports are coming from, we'll keep at it. Jadaliyya Updates/Tweets from San'a, Yemen [As of late Saturday night, early Sunday ...
Keep Reading »Crafting Chaos: Presidential Games and Yemen's Escalating Violence
I am sitting in the dark, having enjoyed a remarkable 6 consecutive hours of electricity today in our house near the “Square of Fear”, a roundabout in an affluent neighborhood of Sana’a that sits between the houses of General Ali Mohsen and Hamid al-Ahmar. The sounds of mortars, missiles and gunfire echo from across the city in al-Hasaba, where al-Jazeera will tell me tomorrow morning that 41 people were killed overnight. If we were to believe Yemen State Television and the Deputy Minister of ...
Keep Reading »Counter-Proposal from Yemen's Revolutionary Youth
While the Gulf Cooperation Council , the United States, the European Union, and the Yemeni president quibbled over who would sign a vague transfer-of-power concord President Ali Abdallah Salih nixed, the youth coalition of pro-democracy demonstrators have put together thirteen specific points for the coming transition (and had them translated into clear English). Their proposals are certainly not inspired by al-Qa’ida or the Muslim Brotherhood, as the discredited Salih regime asserts, nor any other ...
Keep Reading »Art for Change at the Square for Change in Yemen
[This post was sent to Jadaliyya by Woman from Yemen.] Walking through the old city in Sana'a there is no doubt that art is alive and is a part of our culture. Architectural beauty is not only appreciated but expected as well. The Revolution has revealed many hidden talents. "We have talent, but the Revolution gave us the opportunity to express them" said Khallad al-Faqih, member of al-Fajr Youth Coalition. Artists have used these talents to promote principles of the Revolution and ...
Keep Reading »Saleh's Speech on Mixing the Sexes and Its Implications
[This post was sent to Jadaliyya by Woman from Yemen.] Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently used another political tool to try and suppress the pro-change protests. Like many leaders worldwide, he used "women" as a tool against his opponents. His brief statement on the prohibition of mixing between women and men (English text of President's speech) along with the smear campaigns on national TV against women implies that women in pro-change square are "loose" women. This is a ...
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