History and Impacts of the Blockade Yemen w/ Shireen Al-Adeimi
Guerrilla History
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The Rise of the Shafi Sufi in Yemen
Saudi Arabia was very intentionally exporting their version of Islam to the rest of the world, especially in countries like Yemen that are economically underdeveloped compared to Saudi Arabia and rely on support from Saudi Arabia. And so Salah was a major Saudi ally and a major US ally. He allowed this influence into Yemeni schools, Yemeni curricula, Yemeni society, and didn't think it was going to be a problem essentially. For anybody, certainly wasn't a problem for him. But you had certain groups. So the Zaidi in Saudi, particularly the Houthi family, they had a member in parliament who was representing that region. And he was very vocal against the well, habitification of the Yemeni
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