Yemen The Road to Chaos
GINNY HILL
Key Selling Points First non-academic book on contemporary Yemen Ahead of the curve, subject about to burst in to the headlines Beautifully written with characters, anecdotes, vivid reportage etc
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OCTOBER 2013 £22.50 352 PAGES 1 MAP
MIDDLE EAST / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Author
Ginny Hill is an associate fellow at the influential foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, where she runs the Yemen Forum. Formerly an award-winning filmmaker and correspondent, she has reported from Yemen for the BBC, the Christian Science Monitor, the Economist, Slate magazine and Jane’s. Ginny has produced news, current affairs and documentary from the Middle East for Al-Jazeera, CNBC, CNN, Channel 4 News and ITV. She studied Arabic and the Koran in Yemen’s madrassas.
Linking the lawless Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, Yemen is a strategically vital country on the brink of collapse, whose implosion, combined with a growing Al Qaeda presence, could have consequences for the whole Middle East and beyond. Ginny Hill takes us inside this fascinating and complex country, introducing us to a range of characters; Somali refugees, tribal warlords, Qat-chewing philosophers, corrupt politicians and gun-runners. She shows us the transnational networks of crime, people-smuggling and terrorism which sweep through the country, the legacy of civil war, and how the most vibrant democracy in the Middle East became mired in corruption and separatist violence. Part reportage, part history, and part informed analysis, this is an indispensable guide to the little-understood country which is about to dominate international headlines. Praise for the book “Yemen – a country of multiple realties, complex, layered, and explosive, where some of the hungriest people in the world strive to live. Ginny Hill is a rare outsider who has lived the country, she is superbly seasoned in its physical and political terrain. Her book is a revelation.” JON SNOW, JOURNALIST AND BROADCASTER
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