Poem: Broken Hope
Published on 17 June 2013 by Fuad Noman in Opinion
Comrade! I think you are not forlorn
Shake my hand
I am only your pinion
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Geography of religious borders
Published on 17 June 2013 by Jordantimes.com Marwan Al Husayni in Opinion
When writing about social issues in the Arab world, special focus needs to be placed on religion.
Poem: Country under foreign rule
Published on 13 June 2013 by Maged Ahmed Alqutami in Opinion
Just at the rooster achieved the calling,
Which some reckon nuisance,
Bloody mourning redawned.
We lost our sense for seeking safety!
GPC confuses the JMP: Hadi for president?
Published on 13 June 2013 by Yemenpress.net Khalid Al-Samadi in Opinion
I was expecting either the General People’s Congress (GPC) or the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) to select the interim president Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi as a candidate in the presidential election of 2014.
Saying ‘yes’ to a no-fly zone in Syria
Published on 13 June 2013 by Asaad Al-Saleh in Opinion
The fall of the Syrian regime has been the goal of millions of Syrians, not only those who rose against Bashar Al-Assad, but also the now more than four million people directly affected by his clinging to power instead of answering the popular call for a regime.
Planes piloted by ‘the devil’
Published on 6 June 2013 by Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh in Opinion
Carelessly and provocatively, the “blind warplanes,” or drones, are still throwing tons of explosives on inhabitants and their houses under feeble pretexts.
Humor: Yemen’s ‘Ministry of Corruption’
Published on 6 June 2013 by Afrah Nasser in Opinion
With the motto “keep calm and corrupt everything,” Yemen’s government establishes for the first time ever in its history—and in any other country's history—a Ministry of Corruption.
The forgotten in Guantanamo
Published on 30 May 2013 by 2013 Sara Abdullah Hasan / First published May. 27 in Opinion
I didn’t imagine that I would one day hear that Saeed—the brother of my friend who died after suffering with cancer, who I know as a kind, lovely and moderate man—I couldn’t imagine that he would be a Guantanamo inmate.
Defying the odds in Yemen, Syria and Turkey involves foresight
Published on 27 May 2013 by Seatletimes.com Thomas L. Friedman in Opinion
I’ve been traveling to Yemen, Syria and Turkey to film a documentary on how environmental stresses contributed to the Arab awakening. As I looked back on the trip, it occurred to me that three of our main characters—the leaders of the two Yemeni villages that have been fighting over a single water well and the leader of the Free Syrian Army in Raqqa province, whose cotton farm was wiped out by drought—have 36 children among them: 10, 10 and 16.
Yemeni women make their voices heard
Published on 27 May 2013 by Aljazeera.com Amina Semlali in Opinion
“Side by side we fought with men for a better Yemen. Now we will fight for a constitution that is inclusive of women and men alike.” – A young woman at the National Dialogue Conference, March 2013, Sana’a, Yemen.
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John McCain to the Yemen Times: “Consequences of failure here will come home to America”