#  Public Seminar: Silencing Teachers in Yemen | Abdulgaleel Ahmed 

 





January 29, 2024

 

 

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 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](/people/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](https://www.unrefugees.org/news/yemen-crisis-explained/) 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](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/who-are-the-houthis-and-why-are-we-at-war-with-them/) “God is great, death to the U.S., death to Israel, curse the Jews, and victory for Islam.”

 The full article is found [here](https://publicseminar.org/2024/01/silencing-teachers-in-yemen/).

 Photo: *A destroyed building at Yemen’s Taiz University in April 2016. Credit: akramalrasny / Shutterstock.*



 

 

 



 

 

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