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Yemen: The Forgotten Key to the Arab World
From April 25, 2014 until May 08, 2014
This book by Francisco Veiga, Layla Hamad and Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán will be presented in Madrid on Thursday, May 8.
The event will be presented by Eduardo López Busquets, General Director of Casa Árabe, and will include the participation of Rafael Mendívil Peydro, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Mustapha A. Noman, Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen; Francisco Javier Hergueta, a former ambassador to Yemen, and Francisco Veiga, one of the work’s authors. The presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Casa Árabe Auditorium in Madrid (Calle Alcalá, 62) with free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
The lack of knowledge which we possess in general about Yemen’s history results in the fact that we are unaware, for instance, that this country has been a sort of political laboratory within the Arab world. Certain ideological experiments have been tested in Yemen that did not necessarily arise from that country’s reality: the Zaydi Imanate, which lasted more than one thousand years; in its day, the Mutawakkilite kingdom that formed part of the United Arab States (UAS); later on, a Nasser-style republic in the early days of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR); communism in the South; the Salafism brought in through schools financed by Saudi Arabia, and even democracy in the recently unified republic. In much the same way, the Yemeni political transition resulting from the people’s revolution leading to the renunciation of President Saleh has contributed its own proposals and solutions within the framework of the Arab Spring.
Francisco Veiga
A Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Mr. Veiga is a doctor of History, a political analyst and expert on Southeastern Europe and Turkey. He is also the coordinator of the Eurasian Hub cooperative of ideas. The highlights amongst this most recent publications include: El desequilibrio como orden. Una historia de la Posguerra Fría, 1990-2008, (Disequilibrium as Order: A history of the Post-Cold War, Alianza Editorial, 2009 and El turco: Diez siglos a las puertas de Europa (The Turk: Ten centuries at the gates of Europe, Debate, 2007; first edition: 2006).
Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán
A professor of the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies and East Asian Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Gutiérrez de Terán teaches classical Arabic language and literature classes in the Asia and Africa Studies Degree Program, as well as courses on transition processes in the Arab and Islamic political world as part of the Master’s Degree program in Contemporary Arab and Islamic Studies. Amongst his most recent publications is the Report on the Arab Uprisings, as a co-author (Madrid, Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo, 2012).
Leyla Hamad Zahonero
A researcher with the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies and East Asian Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, she holds a degree in Political and Administrative Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and completed her Degree in Advanced Studies on “Tradition and Innovation in the Arab and Islamic World” at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her lines of research focus on Yemen and encompass everything from the political and electoral system to tribal justice and that Arab country’s foreign policy.
