There has been a civil war going on in the country of Yemen for more than 2 years now, but most people in the west do not know this. There is a reason it is sometimes called “The Forgotten War.” The two sides, the Saudi Arabian supported puppet government and the Houthi rebels, have been […]
Over the last ten weeks, I have had to complete a “twitter assignment” over the course of each week. This assignment involved tweeting or retweeting a minimum of five times and then providing a personal analysis of my tweets at the end of the week. The topics that one could have chosen for their tweets […]
In the Dar al-Islam: Yemen course with Gary Scudder, our assignment was a 10 week, weekly assignment. We were to create 5 tweets relating to Yemen and write a 250 to 350 word reflection and commentary on the tweets and relate them to topics from the course. The following is one of the weekly submissions […]
The state of Yemen… an important piece in the political puzzle that is the world as we know it, a lynchpin of the Middle East if you will, the deciding factor in the future of Saudi Arabian trade routes and, via domino effect, the USA. If only people would pay attention. What the world has […]