The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share a recent publication from Public Seminar written by Harvard Fellow in Anthropology Abdulgaleel Ahmed titled "Silencing Teachers in Yemen: How the Houthi threaten the future of a civil society."
“After nine years of war, Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” a United Nations report asserted earlier this year:
An estimated 4.5 million people—14 percent of the population—are currently displaced, most of whom have been displaced multiple times over a number of years. Two-thirds of the population of Yemen—21.6 million people[—]are in dire need of humanitarian assistance and protection services. The risk of a large-scale famine in the country has never been more acute. Tens of thousands are already living in famine-like conditions, with a staggering 6 million more just one step away from it.
The cause of this suffering is an ongoing civil war between Yemeni government forces and the Houthi, a Shia Islamist political and military organization that in 2003 adapted the official slogan “God is great, death to the U.S., death to Israel, curse the Jews, and victory for Islam.”
The full article is found here.
Photo: A destroyed building at Yemen’s Taiz University in April 2016. Credit: akramalrasny / Shutterstock.