Yemen: In the Shadow of the Imam

Ask anyone from the Middle East about Yemen, that country on the
southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, and they’ll tell you tales
about the Queen of Sheba, Frankincense and Myrrh. It’s a place
steeped in ancient history and paints a vivid picture in the
imagination. But it’s also a place currently riven by conflict,
engulfed in a civil war which has now been raging since 2014. But
how did it get there? And what can the country’s history tell us
about the bleak current state of affairs? For the next five
episodes, Conflicted tells the country’s story. We begin in the
20th century, with two Yemeni states - one in the North and one in
the South - at odds with each other. With chaos caused by
interventions from Nasser in the North, and the British Empire
usurped by a Marxist regime in the South, for decades it seemed
they could never be united. But with the rise of a certain
strongman, Ali Abdullah Saleh, by the late 20th century this seemed
possible. To help Thomas and Aimen find out more about this quest
for unification, today Conflicted welcomes our first ever guest,
Baraa Shaiban. Baraa is a Yemeni journalist and political activist
who was previously the advisor to the Yemeni Embassy London and has
done some amazing work in bringing the crisis of the past decade to
the world. He’ll be bringing his extraordinary first hand account
of many of the recent events in Yemen’s political history to the
table as we seek to unwrap this riddle of a country. Join our FB
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