Yemen News

Episodes

1. 37

   علي ناصر قايد البخيتي

   علي ناصر قايد البخيتي علي البخيتي، محامي وكاتب سياسي يمني، ولاجئ سياسي مؤخرا في بريطانيا، من مواليد قرية الملحاء مديرية الحدا محافظة ذمار عضو سابق في مؤتمر الحوار الوطني اليمني والمتحدث باسم أنصار الله "الحوثيين" في المؤتمر ساند الحوثيين بقوة وكان رأس الحربة وأبرز وجوههم في معركتهم السياسية...

   Sep 2, 2020

   29m
2. 36

   Amr Gamal: A Love Story for a Beloved City

   Independent Yemeni film and theatre director Amr Gamal returns to the podcast to share more about his work and love for Aden. He talks about the power of comedy, and says, “When you mix tragedy with comedy it’s easier to swallow.” Amr also shares how, as he’s taken his work out of the country…

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   Aug 3, 2020

   17m
3. 35

   Amr Gamal: Making Movies for the Yemeni People

   After nearly all the theaters, cinemas, and stages in Aden were either shut down or destroyed following Yemen’s civil war that ended in 1994, Amr Gamal went on to become an independent Yemeni film and theatre director. He wrote and directed 10 theatre productions between 2005 and 2014 and his…

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   Jul 31, 2020

   27m
4. 34

   Yemenis Rising Up to Overcome Struggle

   Alex Williams, host of Yemen News, joins Affan Syed’s podcast to continue bringing awareness about the Yemen crisis to a global audience. He describes the multiple disease outbreaks that Yemen has faced since the outbreak of the war and continues to celebrate Yemeni resilience. Alex says the real...

   Jul 27, 2020

   18m
5. 33

   Alex Williams on Yemeni Resilience

   Alex Williams, host of Yemen News, talks more about different factions taking advantage of the war in Yemen and asks us to consider where all the weapons being sold to the warring parties really end up. He also describes Yemen’s tribal society as well as the impact of the war on tribal values and...

   Jul 23, 2020

   28m
6. 32

   Alex Williams on the Yemen Crisis

   Alex Williams, host of Yemen News, takes a turn answering the questions as he breaks down the impact of war, cholera, and COVID-19 on Yemeni families. He tells us how the war in Yemen started over five years ago, and describes the resilience of the Yemeni people through the conflict. Alex also...

   Jul 20, 2020

   23m
7. 31

   Hadil Al-Ashwal: Yemeni Advocate for Gender Equality

   Hadil Al-Ashwal is the Founder & Managing Director of the MENA Advocates for Gender Equality. Born and raised in Yemen, she has lived in different countries in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Hadil holds an MBA from Cardiff Metropolitan University where she was selected as a...

   Jul 16, 2020

   28m
8. 30

   Khalid Twaiti: “Pure Gold” Fighting for Yemen

   Yemeni Boxer Khalid Twaiti has been fighting professionally for over three years and has a 6-0 record in his professional bouts, with three knockouts under his belt. Khalid is motivated by the resilience of the Yemeni people. Khalid says Yemeni’s have the “heart of a lion” and seeks to use his...

   Jul 13, 2020

   17m
9. 29

   Shroq Al Ramadi: Reviving Hadhrami Culture

   Shroq Al Ramadi is the founder of Takween Culture Club, which exists to revive Hadhrami culture. Shroq speaks about the importance of these efforts during a time of political conflict and war that has threatened to strip Hadhrami society of its traditions and cultural identity. Her efforts to...

   Jul 9, 2020

   29m
10. 28

    Mohammed Murshed: An Artist Highlights Yemen’s Ancient Places and Hidden History

    Mohammed Murshed is a professional artist from Yemen who addresses Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through his work. He returns to the podcast to describe his personal experiences in Yemen’s ancient places and challenge Yemenis to spend more time researching their own history. He shares…

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    Jul 6, 2020

    22m
11. 27

    Mohammed Murshed: An Artist Shines a Light on Trauma and War

    Mohammed Murshed is a professional artist from Yemen who works with paint, sculpture, video, sound, programming for art, and video games. His work addresses the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that he experiences as a result of living through the war in Yemen, and how he's processing its...

    Jul 2, 2020

    22m
12. 26

    Tareq Hassan: Keys to Sustainable Development in Yemen

    Tareq Hassan is the Chairman of the International Youth Council -Yemen (IYCY), a leading organization in Yemen active in WASH, Nutrition, Food Security, Health, Shelter, Protection, Governance, Education, Peace, Energy, Environment & Climate Change as well as Youth Development. He was elected as...

    Jun 29, 2020

    22m
13. 25

    Amir Al-Deen: Top Medical Student & Illegally - Detained Prisoner

    Amir Al-Deen Abdulmalik Jahaf is the son of academics who graduated high school as a top student and was awarded a scholarship to study medicine in Egypt. However, when he returned to visit his family in Yemen on summer break, he ended up being detained without trial for two years and three…

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    Jun 25, 2020

    25m
14. 24

    Abobakr Alfaqeeh on Democratic Legitimacy & Yemeni Solidarity

    Yemeni writer Abobakr Alfaqeeh returns to help us understand the new controversial tax being imposed by the Houthi government as well as the Houthi government’s policies surrounding Covid-19. He talks about the suffering of ordinary Yemeni people living under governments without democratic...

    Jun 22, 2020

    22m
15. 23

    Abobaker Al Faqeeh Reports on Child Soldiers & Education

    Abobaker Al Faqeeh has worked for both local and international media outlets, including the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. In a recent piece, he exposed how both the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition have been actively recruiting and using child soldiers in the Yemen conflict. In…

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    Jun 18, 2020

    18m
16. 22

    YemeKnight!: Emad Al Akhali, Yemeni ambassador of hip-hop

    Emad Al Akhali, the Yemeni rapper and hip-hop artist known as YemeKnight shares insights about hip hop culture in Yemen. He tells us how hip-hop culture came to Yemen and how Yemen influenced him as a poet and as a deep thinker. Emad tells us that Yemenis get a “hit of reality” early as they are...

    Jun 15, 2020

    30m
17. 21

    Nada Al Ahdal: Human Rights Activist & Child Marriage Survivor

    Nada Al Ahdal began her activism in 2013 when she was 10 years old by refusing to be a victim of under-age marriage. She fled home to avoid an arranged marriage at the age of 11 and has since established a foundation for the protection of children's rights. Nada has been nominated for the Nobel...

    Jun 8, 2020

    29m
18. 20

    Nasser Arrabyee: Yemeni Journalist & Political Analyst

    Nasser Arrabyee, a veteran journalist, has spent the last 20 years telling the stories of Yemenis, including the Yemenis held by the United States in Guantánamo prison who have never been given due process or brought to trial. This includes the story of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, one Yemeni held…

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    Jun 4, 2020

    22m
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    Thuraya Dammag: Yemeni Journalist & Human Rights Activist

    Thuraya Dammag represented the Independent Women at the National Dialogue Conference that followed Yemen’s revolution. She was also the coordinator for the International Federation of Reporters in Yemen and has worked as a reporter and editor for many media outlets including the Saba News agency,...

    Jun 1, 2020

    20m
20. 18

    Haifa Subai: Graffiti Artist & Voice of Silent Victims

    Haifa Subai portrays the devastating effects of war in her art on the streets of Yemen. Influenced by the armed conflict she has witnessed in her country since the start of the Arab Spring until now, Haifa launched an advocacy campaign called Silent Victims, which highlights women’s and…

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    May 28, 2020

    22m
21. 17

    Shiran Avraham: Middle-Eastern singer-songwriter with Yemeni roots

    Shiran Avraham is an Israeli singer-songwriter with Yemeni roots. Avraham talks about her grandmother’s journey from Yemen to Israel and how the stories her family told her about Yemen impacted her identity and her work. Although she found it difficult to connect with Arabic music while her peers...

    May 24, 2020

    22m
22. 16

    Ruba Nasr: Multilingual Singer and Songwriter

    Ruba Nasr is a multilingual singer and songwriter from Aden. She sings in Turkish, French, English and is now working on a modern take of Yemeni folk songs. Ruba’s journey started when she was encouraged by a teacher who overheard her singing during her lunch break at school and now Ruba finds...

    May 22, 2020

    14m
23. 15

    Alaa Al-Eryani: The Yemeni Feminist Movement

    Alaa shares about her personal journey growing up in Yemen and eventually founding the Yemeni Feminist Movement. Frustration over women being consistently sidelined through Yemen’s political uprisings and war, as well as the toxic relationships between men and women in Yemen, inspired Alaa to…

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    May 19, 2020

    23m
24. 14

    Mazen Alsaqqaf: Youtuber and Yemeni Social Media Influencer

    Mazen has just under a quarter of a million subscribers on YOUTUBE. He shares with us his journey from filming on his smart phone, to now working on his weekly show called “Fiuz” at Sadeem Studios. Mazen says sometimes his messaging can be counter culture and an uphill struggle, and his messaging...

    May 14, 2020

    14m
25. 13

    Dr. Nadine Das: PhD, Business Owner & Fashion & Beauty Influencer

    Nadine Das is a fashion and beauty influencer from Yemen with over 100,000 followers on Instagram, found at @Nadinedasofficial. Nadine also has a PhD in Linguistics and she runs a software business hand in hand with her husband in India. In this episode, we hear about Nadine’s journey and the...

    May 10, 2020

    13m
26. 12

    Rania on Livelihoods & COVID-19 Part 2

    Rania shares the story of Amani, who works in the hygiene section of a hospital, and the struggle she has to put food on the table for her family. Rania emphasizes the importance of giving these essential workers stability and proper protective equipment as they are a crucial backbone for all...

    May 9, 2020

    8m
27. 11

    Rania on Livelihoods & COVID-19 Part 1

    Rania is originally from Al Hudaydah and went from volunteering to make sandwiches for students at a local school to managing her own local initiative. She talks to us about the challenges of doing aid work in Yemen and why vulnerable Yemenis often don’t trust humanitarian organizations. Rania...

    May 6, 2020

    11m
28. 10

    Mr. Nazar Haitham: Spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council

    Mr. Nazar Haitham, spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council (STC), updates us on why the STC declared self-governance after previously signing the power-sharing Riyadh Agreement, negotiated between the STC and Yemen’s Saudi-backed government. He also discusses whether the conflict...

    May 4, 2020

    12m
29. 9

    A Yemeni musician with international appeal

    Abdu B tells us about growing up in Yemen where he was discouraged from studying music. Nevertheless, Abdu shares that he was always impressed by music and it was always within him. After war broke out in Yemen in 2015, Abdu traveled to Europe to pursue his dreams and this week released the…

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    Apr 30, 2020

    12m
30. 8

    Yemen: Facing COVID-19 without Water Part 2

    Kamal takes us with him to experience life in a Yemeni village, where due to water shortage parents often have to make hard decisions between their family’s health, or water for other domestic uses. Kamal speaks to us in Episode 8 about the challenges that Yemenis face in rural areas in order to...

    Apr 28, 2020

    7m
31. 7

    Yemen: Facing COVID-19 without Water Part 1

    Wash your hands to fight COVID-19, you say? Well, the United Nations (UN) says 17.8 million Yemenis require support to meet their basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) needs. They can’t wash their hands when they don’t have water. Meanwhile they are already battling what the World Health...

    Apr 25, 2020

    7m
32. 6

    Lifesaving Responses & Psychosocial Support with Malak from Yemen

    Entisar walks miles to gather plants and herbs to feed her children, as she has no source of income. Hear how Malak and her team are distributing food aid to women like Entisar and literally saving lives. Malak also shares about another lifesaving response in a rural area, made possible by a…

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    Apr 22, 2020

    10m
33. 5

    Gamal Mustafa: Front-line Nurse Turned Singer

    Gamal shares about volunteering as a nurse during the war for Aden in 2015, and the challenges he overcame afterwards to become a singer and form a band called "Mo.X.Gemo". Through his music he wants to inspire Yemeni youth to develop themselves and be a part of re-building the country using the...

    Apr 20, 2020

    12m
34. 4

    Education in Yemen in the Midst of War

    Mr. Amir shares about the challenges of Education in Yemen and tells two inspirational stories about how some are overcoming these challenges. These stories highlight how the initiatives of local organizations are empowering women and girls in rural areas.

    Apr 16, 2020

    17m
35. 3

    Peace-building with Ashraf, a Producer from Yemen

    Ashraf, a Yemeni producer living in the diaspora shares about how media is playing a role in encouraging Yemenis to reconcile. He says there is life in the midst of the war and shares with us how Yemeni women are leading grassroots peace building initiatives. For more info: Email:...

    Apr 14, 2020

    17m
36. 2

    Malak a Yemeni lady from Taiz, Yemen

    We spoke to Malak who is from Taiz, a city in the central region of Yemen. Taiz has been under siege for the last 5 years. Malak shared with us her tragic loss and how she has been responding to past Dengue Fever and Cholera outbreaks. She is currently working for a local NGO, assisting to clear...

    Apr 12, 2020

    14m
37. 1

    Yemen’s 1st Covid-19 Case

    We spoke to Anwar, from Hadramowt, Yemen. He works for a local NGO in Food security, giving food to those in need and bringing much needed hygiene awareness in the face of COVID-19 in the Eastern province of Yemen. For more information Email me at: [email protected]

    Apr 10, 2020

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