Local conflict, global spin: An uprising in the Yemeni highlands

Middle East Report

Volumn , Issue 232, 2004, Pages 44-46

  Glosemeyer, Iris ^a  

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Indexed keywords

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; MILITARY INTERVENTION; POLITICAL CONFLICT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD; YEMEN;

EID: 8744290666     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1559484     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Yemen Times (online), June 24, 2004. Statistics cited in the Yemeni press frequently reproduce crude estimates.
2. This northern Khawlan, and the wider region of Khawlan ibn 'Amir of which it is a part, are to be distinguished from the Khawlan southeast of Sanaa. See Shelagh Weir, "A Clash of Fundamentalisms: Wahhabism in Yemen," Middle East Report 204 (July-September 1997) and A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen (London: British Museum Press, forthcoming).
3. Gabriele vom Bruck, "Being a Zaydi in the Absence of an Imam: Doctrinal Revisions, Religious Instruction and the (Re-)Invention of Ritual," in Rémy Leveau, Franck Mermier and Udo Steinbach, eds. Le Yémen contemporain (Paris: Editions Karthala, 1999), pp. 169-192. See also Bernard Haykel, "Rebellion, Migration or Consultative Democracy? The Zaydis and Their Detractors in Yemen," in ibid., pp. 193-202.
4. The most comprehensive collection of accusations is listed in Arab News (online), June 27,2004.
5. The letter was published in the Yemen Times on June 28, 2004.