Tales from al-Yaman

As Yemen’s Houthis take potshots at Red Sea shipping, I’ve been putting together a post to give some background about who they are and what they’re all about. Turns out Yemen—al-Yaman in Arabic—is a very unique and complicated nation, so it’s taking a while. Sorry about that. It’ll be soon, I promise. In the meantime, here are a couple stories about the country that I came across in the course of my research that you might find entertaining: