In 2007, the Southern Movement was born in protest against the marginalization of South Yemenis since the unification of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY/South Yemen) with the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) in 1990.
Anne-Linda Amira Augustin
Anne-Linda Amira Augustin has worked at Leipzig University (Germany) since January 2022 as a research coordinator of a joint project on institutions and racism in Germany. Before that, she was a political advisor at the European Representative Office of the Southern Transitional Council, which emerged in 2017 from the Southern Movement. She is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, and a board member of the Academic Forum Muhammad Ali Luqman. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the Philipps-University of Marburg (Germany) on the South Yemeni independence struggle.