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A Tale Of Grand Resistance: Yemen, The Wahhabi And The House Of Saud Paperback – 18 Oct. 2016

by Catherine Shakdam (Author)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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If Yemen managed to resist the Ottomans, the British Empire and pretty much all other imperial powers which ever attempted to subdue and control its people, the sons of Hamdan almost lost their freedom and national identity to the hegemonic ambitions of the House of Saud. Today Yemen is breaking free from the shackles of covert imperialism, learning once more to stand tall in the face of oppression. And though the impoverished nation is undergoing the growing pain of political empowerment, stumbling at times as a new generation of leaders are being made in the trenches of the Resistance movement, the sons of Hamdan are defiantly reclaiming their history, their land, their nation. As Yemen rises once more, it is a nation-state which will reclaim its place at the world table - with Yemen, Southern Arabia could witness the rise not of a political giant but a liberation movement echoing of the hopes first enounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1979), when he first proposed an alternative to western capitalism as the only democratic model. Betrayed by their leadership, lost to corruption and bogged down by poverty Yemen’s long descent to the abyss can be traced back to 1994, when former President Ali Abdullah Saleh made a pact with Riyadh - military and financial support against the Southern Secessionist Movement - in exchange for Yemen’s heart and soul. Those Highlands the kingdom knew it could not militarily over-run, it chose to insidiously transform through the export of Wahhabism and Salafism. Former President Saleh opened Yemen up to Al Saud’s ideological devolution in the name of territorial unity. And if Yemen’s house stood united for a while, forced into a marriage of political and economic convenience by those ambitious men who failed to see past Saudi Arabia’s imperial manipulations, the poison of sectarianism came to undo. Yemen’s road to freedom would come by way of a counter-revolution, or rather a liberation, as the rise of the Houthis would mark the country’s real democratic awakening. Often dismissed by local political observers as they carry the stigma of the former regime, the Houthis, a Zaidi group organised under the leadership of Abdel-Malek Al-Houthi with a tribal base in northern Sa'ada, have long shed their "rebel group" label. They have been reborn as a powerful and popular political movement. If the Houthis, a formerly obscure band of tribal fighters, could be sneered at back in 2009 and shrugged off as wannabe Shia rebels by Yemen's high and mighty, the 2011 uprising levelled the political field to such an extent that they have come out of the revolutionary storm like a shiny new penny. Edited by Sheikh Shabbir Hassanally
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  1. Print length
    214 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    18 Oct. 2016
  4. Dimensions
    15.24 x 1.24 x 22.86 cm
  5. ISBN-10
    1539585581
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1539585589
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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (18 Oct. 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 214 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1539585581
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1539585589
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.24 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
7 global ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2021
This book is great and has taught me a lot about Yemen. The only problems are some spelling mistakes and once a paragraph was repeated twice.
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Fatma Hassanally
5.0 out of 5 stars "illusion of conspiracy" is a conspiracy in itself
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 March 2017
Loved your book. It was really good and showed the true story about Yemen's resistance and the House of Al-Saud's conspiracy. As Ayatollah Khamenei said "illusion of conspiracy" is a conspiracy in itself. How true!!
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Randi
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read for Western Readers
Reviewed in the United States on 13 July 2017
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This book is an essential read for westerners who are looking for information from the perspective of Yemen's anti imperialist resistance movement. Shakdam breaks down Saudi Arabia's intolerant Wahhabi ideology; which western powers have used to exploit the Middle East for over a century. If you live in the United States, chances are you have been fed nothing but lies about Yemen's revolutionary Ansarullah movement. Which portrays them as both terrorists and Iranian puppets. Neither of which is true. This book helps explain how Ansarullah rose up as a response to western imperialism and the intollerant sectarian groups it creates in its wake (like al Qaeda) with help from the Gulf Kingdoms. Yemen remains the only republic on the Arabian Peninsula-- surrounded by monarchies which seek it to be docile and under their control. But never the less, Yemen resists.
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Dr. Larry Leibrock
1.0 out of 5 stars Poor
Reviewed in the United States on 24 December 2016
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Poor narrative. Poor effort
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1001BoredNights
5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely detailed
Reviewed in the United States on 9 May 2018
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Excellent book that explains the history of Yemen to the present day
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