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Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict. Oxford University Press. Caton, S. C. (2005). Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation. Hill and Wang. Clark, V. (2010). Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes. Yale University Press. Dresch, P. (2001). A History of Modern Yemen. Cambridge University Press.
The Houthi movement, [a] officially the Ansar Allah, [b] is a Zaydi Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydi Shias , with their namesake leadership being drawn largely from the Houthi tribe . [ 95 ]
The Sarkha (Arabic: الصرخة, lit. 'The scream / The collective outcry') is the political slogan of the Houthi movement, a Shia Islamist political and military organization in Yemen, that reads "God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse be upon the Jews, Victory to Islam" on a vertical banner of Arabic text.
Banu Houth (Arabic: بنو حوث) or the Houthi tribe (قبيلة الحوثي, qabīlat al-Ḥūthī), is a Hamdanid Arab tribe that centralizes in northern Yemen. The tribe is branched from Banu Hamdan tribe. The Houthi movement is named after the tribe. [1] [2] They are primarily headquartered in both 'Amran and Saada. [3]
The Houthi rebels are one of two main factions controlling territory amidst Yemen’s ongoing civil war. Currently, they control the Western coast of the country, including its capital city, Sana’a.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are stepping up their strikes on ships in the Red Sea, which they say are revenge against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza.
The Houthi takeover in Yemen, also known by the Houthis as the September 21 Revolution, [7] or 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état (by opponents), [8] was a popular revolution against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis and their supporters that pushed the Yemeni government from power.
In response, the Houthi movement arose among students, seeking to promote Zaydism, drawing its name from their leader, Hussein al-Houthi. The student-driven Houthis soon developed into a political ...