Drive Time Podcast 07-07-2020 Yemen

Join Rabeeb Mirza & Safeer Zaftasht for Tuesday’s show where we discussing: Yemen

Yemen – at breaking point
Half a decade on from the civil war in Yemen, over 100,000 have been killed. Those who have survived face famine and the global pandemic which sweeps silently and quickly across the nation.

Join us LIVE from 4pm as we look at the extreme crisis in Yemen and the dire need to help humanity.

Guests Include:

Dr Stephen Day (Professor of International Affairs at Rollins College in Florida, and author of two books on Yemen: the 2012 Cambridge University Press book, Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen: A Troubled National Union, and the new 2020 Palgrave Macmillan book, Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis.)

Jahaan Pittalwala (Research Analyst for the Middle East at the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.)

Fareed Al-Homaid (spokesperson- International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen)

Hisham Al Omeisy (Leading commentator on the civil war, was held for five months without charge.)

Saira (medical student who has been involved with MSF fundraising events and has organised publicity events for their projects. Saira is also working on a UNs women empowerment project and will be hoping to launch it globally over the coming year- with a particular focus in the Middle East.)

Munir Mawari (Yemeni-American journalist and native speaker of Arabic. Previously for al-Jazeera TV, Voice of America and Asharq al-Awsat. He appears frequently on the BBC Arabic service and other satellite TV channels. He is currently running Yemen Leaks. Yemen Leaks is an independent political news website.)

Produced by: Benasir Rafiq