A Sanaa-based writer grapples with years of catastrophic loss across her country, now reflected in the ongoing Gaza genocide. ‘Yemen, like other countries and regions in the world, is meant to be kept unsettled,' observes Elham Al-Oqabi, a Yemeni anti-war writer and rights advocate. ‘Neither completely collapsed nor destroyed, alive nor finished,' she adds. ‘Always closer to death than life.' Al-Oqabi has lived in her country's Houthi-held north through years of US, Saudi, Emirati and (…)
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