These are some of the most insightful history books to add to your reading list. Baltic: The Future of Europe by Oliver Moody "Hands up all who know when Tsarist Russia took Finland from Sweden (1809) ...

An outstanding book that provides answers to most questions raised by Yemen’s many crises since 2011, 25 Days to Aden discusses the effects of culture, religion, indoctrination and drug use in ...

“Most of them left Yemen for Israel in the 1950s, 1960s, ... Books This graphic history of Jerusalem is a big hit. But its Jews have hooked noses. By Roy Schwartz 8 min read.

Farran collected experiences throughout his life to share his story, as an Arab-American, Muslim Marine who’d weathered the life of a hostage and lived in the book “Tightening Dark,” which ...

Drawing on nearly two decades of research in Yemen, Philbrick Yadav traces the causes and consequences of the uprising of 2011, with an emphasis on the preoccupation of Yemeni activists, community ...

When Yemen appears in the international news, the stories are most often about the country’s brutal civil war, which has been raging since Houthi forces took over the capital in September 2014.

This collection of essays is a useful primer on the politics and economics of Yemen, now mired in war and dysfunction. Although the authors do address the “fragmented interventions” of various ...

The U.S. continues to launch airstrikes on Yemen in response to the campaign of missile and drone attacks on commercial ships along key global trade routes through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden led ...

I didn’t know what he was talking about. Then I started to notice how only a small number of foreign journalists were keen to report on Yemen, despite the staggering scale of the war over the last ...

When the war first started in Yemen, Dearborn resident and educator Salwa Mawari would call her mom, who at the time was living in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital. “She would tell me story after ...

This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Helen Lackner, the author of the new book, Yemen: Poverty and Conflict, who has spent five decades covering Yemen. They talk about how conflict has been endemic in ...

Jon Alterman: Helen Lackner is the author of Yemen: Poverty and Conflict. She's also the author of Yemen in Crisis: Devastating Conflict, Fragile Hope, which is coming out in January. She's been ...