Barnaby Rogerson

How the Houthis wage war through poetry

It is through verse that the Houthi regime asserts its legitimacy, confounds its enemies and rallies its supporters

The zamil oral tradition speaks not of emirs, but sits the listener with the farmers and shepherds of the Yemeni highlands. Tuul & Bruno Morandi

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