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jpowerj's review
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It felt like he wrote this book as some sort of strange flex about how many very specific yemeni family names he could remember, and their feuds with one another, without any semblance of like a narrative or interesting analysis of sociopolitical factors or...
Anything? Like, I read the entire book and still have no clue why south yemeni became marxist while the north became Arab nationalist, which was the whole reason I wanted to learn about yemeni (that and how that collapsed and turned into modern yemen, but I would've been happy with either one of those...)
Anything? Like, I read the entire book and still have no clue why south yemeni became marxist while the north became Arab nationalist, which was the whole reason I wanted to learn about yemeni (that and how that collapsed and turned into modern yemen, but I would've been happy with either one of those...)
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