Houthis in Yemen: 'Saudi Arabia helped create the conditions for the rise of its most formidable adversary'

In an interview, anthropologist Marieke Brandt analyzes the ideology, power structures, military strength and pan-Islamic ambitions of the Houthis, the Yemeni movement that, in just 13 years, established itself as a quasi-state entity.
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