Shireen Al-adeimi

To help us unpack how we got here and where this is headed, we're joined by two guests.

Dr. Shireen Al-Adeimi was born in Yemen and lived through two of its civil wars.

She teaches at Michigan State University and has been one of the leading voices opposing US support for this Saudi-led war on Yemen since at least 2015.

Dr. Anil Shaleen is a research fellow at the Quincy Institute who studies the Gulf monarchies and has reported from Yemen.

And also, this will be in collaboration with Guerrilla History Dispatch.

Every once in a while, we do a kind of less historical and more current events-y sort of oriented episode, and certainly it's appropriate to be doing that for today's topic, The Helpers of God, with my guest, who is a returning guest to guerrilla history, though first time on you know, the channel that I started more recently, and that is Dr. Shireen Al-Adeimi.

You are an associate professor at Michigan State University in the College of Education.

And in addition to the kind of pedagogical and teacher training type work on language and literacy that you do, you are One of the foremost commentators, I would say, in the Anglophone world on the current situation and environment in Yemen, and particularly given the scholarship that you've contributed, a wonderful essay, in the Sanctions as a War collection on the blockade and sanctions on Yemen, and also recently a really important and excellent essay that you co-authored with Alexandra Allweiss, Think Tanks as Stenographers of the State, Crafting the War on Yemen Through an Imperial Discourse, that perhaps some of what you discussed there will be to our conversation today in a wonderful issue, Volume 35 of Middle East Critique, edited by Issa Blumi, great historian of Yemen who's been on this program before.