Tag: Yemen

  • Nation & World

    Breaking down the Middle East

    Harvard experts assess the rolling waves of violence and political upheaval across much of the Middle East and North Africa.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The poetry of water

    Harvard anthropologist Steven Caton made his name studying tribal poetry in Yemen three decades ago. But it was memories of a tribal war that drew him back to that nation in 2001, and the scarcity of water he discovered there launched him into a new avenue of investigation.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A Nobel cause in the Arab world

    The West must do more to support the ongoing, peaceful democratic revolutions in long-suppressed Arab nations, Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman said during an address at the Harvard Kennedy School

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Of the bean I sing

    A Radcliffe Fellow is working on an opera about the world’s love affair with coffee and how it grew from the bean that made goats jittery to the potion we all get jittery for.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The tipping point

    Seemingly overnight, people in the Mideast and North Africa have risen in anger to demand more freedom. Is this the beginning of democracy in the Arab world, or a new era of political chaos? Harvard analysts offer insights on what is likely to come next.

    14 minutes