CONTEMPORARY YEMEN: BETWEEN MODERNIT Y AND TRADITION

September 6, 2008 - September 7, 2008 | 2:00am - 2:00am

600 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

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Charles Schmitz, Associate Professor of Geography, Towson University, MD Associate Professor of Geography Charles Schmitz discusses how modernity has transformed Yemen in a short time period. The country had entered the 20th century as an isolated region ruled in the south by the British and in the north by the Ottomans and the Zaidi Imamate, who maintained the longest lasting South Arabian regime until the 1962 revolution. Then during the Cold War, Yemen was divided into a Soviet-backed communist state and a state ruled by a conservative tribal military alliance. Today, the united Yemen is the lone republic on the Arabian Penisula, a poor democracy surrounded by oil rich monarchies.

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