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The proliferation of Amazigh culture for the sake of sustainability, maintenance, and resistance has taken assorted modes of expression and dissemination. While Amazigh intellectual production was slowed down by various factors, Berber/Amazigh music has thrived in the middle of a politically and..

The 2018 film 10 Days Before the Wedding marked the first Yemeni-made film in decades that premiered and was commercially released in Yemen. The film is an homage to the coastal city of Aden, where audiences flocked in unprecedented numbers to wedding halls that had been converted into ..

[This is an ongoing post that will be updated regularly. It was first published on 6 December 2016. The updates appear at the bottom.]

The conflict in Yemen seems set to intensify as 2016 draws to a close. The deposed president

“Who is that guy?” Barack Obama’s impressive oratorical skills rocketed him onto the national..

Schadenfreude, a German term, describes a coldhearted pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. While taking pleasure from others’ misfortune is not a virtuous sentiment, the 2016 race for the US presidency, which has been an unprecedented debacle in many ways, is one such circumsta..

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[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of

Franck Mermier, Récits de villes: d’Aden à Beyrouth. Arles: Actes Sud/Sindbad, 2015.        

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The last installment of the three-part exhibition titled Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here opened on Monday 13 May at the Cambridge Arts Council. The exhibition features artists` responses to an explosion that took..

[The following statement was released by Human Rights Watch on 11 January 2013.]

The movie Zero Dark Thirty, which depicts the hunt for Osama bin Laden, 

It is well known that preeminent figures of early modernism, such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, designed architectural proposals for Baghdad around the middle of the 20th century. Many may be surprised however to discover that several other important international arc..

I shot the film presented here, "Third Day in the Heart of the Revolution,’’ over a single day. Divided in two parts, it tells stories from the south of Yemen two years after the revolution started. The first segment focuses on the Yemeni governorate of Abyan and those who fled its capital ..

When considering the wave of uprisings that swept the Arab world recently, otherwise known as the “Arab Spring,” Morocco is often perceived as the exception to the rule. The country’s socio-political profile led many to believe that it was only a matter of time for the disgruntled masses to take..

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As President Barack Obama geared up for the 2012 campaign, he and his administration were eager to capitalize on their most bipartisan “victory” -- the targeted killing of Osama bin Laden on 2 May 2011. With the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death approaching, top officials took ..

On 15 July 2012, employees of the Gulf of Aden Ports Corporation marched from the gate of the Port of Mualla to the Governor`s office in Aden to protest mismanagement of the company. Specifically, the employees called for the abolition of the Corporation`s partnership with Dubai World and the re..

Over the last decade, the term lawfare, an amalgamation of “law” and “warfare,” has been adopted and popularized among people engaged in monitoring, judging and debating the legality of a state’s wartime behavior vis-à-vis enemies on and o..

Next year will mark twenty-five years since the great Jewish-Italian writer Primo Levi either fell or jumped to his death down the stairwell of his Turin apartment. This year has given us two important cultural products that engage with Levi the chemist, writer, and Auschwitz survivor—a collecti..

“An aging man crouched before a TV -- a junkie TV, I might add -- in a darkened room. Not exactly how most people picture the man who called for global jihad.”  --CNN

Over the course of the last week, there has been much discussion of the Bin Laden vide..

After over a decade-long search, the Obama administration is gloating over the murder of the Western world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, making him the third Reagan-supported criminal (after Saddam Hussein and Augusto Pinochet) to die since the turn of ..

This is an interview conducted with Toby Jones on Friday, April 6, in regards to the Saudi regime`s response to calls for reform both in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The interview addresses the recent events in both kingdoms, highlight..

When 19 al-Qaeda hijackers attacked New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, the United States faced a strategic dilemma that was unique in magnitude, but not in kind. Terrorists had killed numerous civilians before, in the US and elsewhere, with and without state sponsorship. Al-Qaeda was..