Why Yemen Matters by Helen Lackner

Author:Helen Lackner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780863567827
Publisher: Saqi

1 If not otherwise specified, all figures are from the 2008 Statistical Yearbook.

2 According to a news report, youth unemployment at the beginning of 2012 was 52.9 per cent, and real overall unemployment stood somewhere between 30 and 40 per cent, due to the political crisis. See Mareb Press online, 16 January 2012, available at www.marebpress.net/news_details.php?lang=arabic&sid=39705.

3 See marebpress.net/news_details.php?sid=29364&lng=arabic.

4 See Asma al-Mohattwari, ‘Most Child Rape Victims Are Boys’, National Yemen, 10 March 2013, available at nationalyemen.com.

5 D. C. Watt, ‘Labor Relations and Trade Unionism in Aden, 1952–1962’, Middle East Journal 16: 4 (Autumn 1962); Ali Muhammad Luqman, ‘Education and the Press in South Arabia’, in Derek Hopwood, ed., The Arabian Peninsula: Society and Politics (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1972); Saeed Abdul Khair al-Noban, ‘Education for Nation-Building: The Experience of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen’, in Brian R. Pridham, ed., Contemporary Yemen: Politics and Historical Background (London: Croom Helm/Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter, 1984); J. Leigh Douglas, The Free Yemeni Movement, 1935–1962 (Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 1987); and Asmahan Aqlaan al-Allas, Audhaa‘ i al-mar‘ah al-yamaniyyah fii dhul al-idaarah al-britaaniyyah li’adan m1937-1967 (Aden: Aden University Printing & Publishing House, 2005).

6 ‘Gam’iyyaat wa mubaadiraat shabaabiyyah ta’qqad liqaa’ muusa’ lahaa fii ‘adan’, Aden al-Ghad online, 5 January 2013, available at adenalghad.

7 Linda Herrera, ‘Young Egyptians’ Quest for Jobs and Justice’, in Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat, eds, Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 127.

8 Herrera and Bayat, Being Young and Muslim, p. 18.

9 Ibid., p. 6.

10 Ibid.

11 Susanne Dahlgren, ‘“She Brings Up Healthy Children to the Homeland”: Morality Discourses in Yemeni Legal Debates’, in Maaike Voorhoeve, ed., Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World (London: I.B.Tauris, 2012).

12 Susanne Dahlgren, ‘Segregation, Illegitimate Encounters, and Contextual Moralities: Sexualities in the Changing Public Sphere in Aden’, in Rewriting the History of Sexuality in the Islamic World, special issue of Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World 4: 2–3 (2006).

13 Sheila Carapico and Cynthia Myntti, ‘A Tale of Two Families: Change in North Yemen, 1977–1989’, Middle East Report 170 (1991), available at www.merip.org; Thomas Stevenson, ‘Yemeni Workers Come Home: Reabsorbing One Million Migrants’, Middle East Report 181 (1993), available at www.merip.org.

14 Sheila Carapico, ‘The Economic Dimension of Yemeni Unity’, Middle East Report 184 (1993), pp. 9–14.

15 Susanne Dahlgren, ‘Women’s Adah vs. “Women’s Law”: The Contesting Issue of Mahr in Aden, Yemen’, in Baudouin Dupret and François Burgat, eds, Le shaykh et le procureur: Systèmes coutumiers et pratiques juridiques au Yémen et en Égypte. Égypte/Monde arabe 1, 3rd series (Paris: CEDEJ, 2005).

16 Mohsin H. Khalifa, Report on Social Conditions and Welfare Services in Aden (no.p., 1951).

17 Susanne Dahlgren, Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010), p. 50.

18 Faisal Darem, ‘Plans Underway for 50,000 Graduate Jobs in Yemen’, Yemen Observer, 14 March 2011, available at www.yobserver.com.

19 Al-Thawra, 25 April 2011.

20 On Nuha’s blog, nuhagamal.

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