Yemen

This paper will provide an in-depth organizational profile of the international terrorist organization known as al-Qaeda, Arabic for “the base”, as well as a look at the leadership, funding, support locations, personnel strength, ideology, targeting, tactics, capability, communications, and overall goals of the group. Al-Qaeda was responsible for the worst attack on United States soil on September 11, 2001, as they planned and executed the hijacking of four commercial airliners and crashed two…

opening book by Nujood Ali, herself, with help from Delphine Minoui, is written through the eyes of someone who actually experienced such cruelty. This book shares her experience along with some of her sister’s experiences with men in a country called Yemen. It tells her story of why she wanted to be divorced and how hard the process of being divorced was for her. It also tells about the people Nujood inspired and affected. The book begins outside of the court, and then goes…

SHIA & SUNNI MUSLIMS. Sunni Islam and Shia Islam are the two major denominations of Islam. Their division traces back to a Sunni–Shiaschism following the death of the Islamic prophetMuhammad in the year 632AD. A dispute over succession to Prophet Muhammed, as a caliph of the Islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the Battle of Jamal and Battle of Siffin. The dispute intensified greatly after the Battle of Karbala, in which Hussein ibn Ali and his household…

Lebanon and Iraq." By the 1950s, the veil had virtually disappeared in Egypt, except among the "lower middle class, the most conservative of all classes." It was only in the Arab world's "most backward regions," and specifically Saudi Arabia and Yemen, that the "old order" and along with it such practices as veiling and polygamy "still persists unaltered." (KEATING, 2011)…

year younger than my classmates. But my love and excitement for reading and learning changed when I had to move to America with my family. Moving to America changed everything for me. I couldn’t even open a book without feeling stupid. Unlike in Yemen, where Arabic is the official language where it’s read from right to left, In America, English is read from left to right. And that small difference felt huge to me. I would open…

ignored by her dad. “Mona tried several times to defend me but was too timid, and anyways, who would have listened to her?” (Ali 97) Mona was also to scared to speak up because she knew her father would scold her for ir. There is also a standard in Yemen that the oldest and the men who have the last word, “Here it’s always the oldest, and the men, who have the last word” (Ali 97). So Nujood and Mona knew that if Mona tried to speak up she would just be shot down by the father or the eldest. Male…

Close to 2 million years ago it has been theorized that early humans were able to cross out of Africa and into Yemen, finally beginning their long journey towards entirely untouched climates and scenery, along with never before seen ecosystems and organisms. The second was that of the Bering land bridge, the only thing that connected the Eastern and Western hemispheres…

of development. A perfect example of this correlation would be the equality and developmental levels in Yemen. Most recent data collected by ____ shows that only 49% of Yemeni women are literate compared to the 82% of Yemeni men, 0% of Yemeni women in parliament, and there is a 27% income gap between men and women 's wages in similar jobs. These are the main factors that have contributed to Yemen being ranked as the worst country for overall gender equality out of 142 countries. Yemen’s…

Illegal or unauthorized immigration indicates to illegal movement across international borders that violates the immigration law of the destination country (Ryo, 2013). This clandestine immigration, in the recent decade, has witnessed an incredible expansion particularly with the growing trend toward globalization which increased the regional disparities in conditions between different places (Rezouni, 2010; Hear et al., 2012). And according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM)…

UNDERSTANDING THE “CALIPHATE”: WHY PEOPLE JOIN ISIL The world has had a keen eye pointed towards the Middle East for years, but the recent conception and rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, has garnered a new caliber of attention. Gaining notoriety for their barbaric acts and militant extremism, ISIL is edging out al-Qaeda as the most powerful jihadi organization. The threats stemming from the existence of such a group reverberate far beyond the immediate Arab nations;…