suddenly at midnight on March 26, I was in Sana'a, you have 12 countries bombing you.

There was no warning. There was no call for peace before it. There was no chance of diplomacy.

And they shut down Yemen's ports, Yemen's airports. You had thousands of Yemenis across the globe

in airports waiting to go back home, actually. And then obviously what that did is it destroyed the economy

and they practiced one of the most horrendous military campaigns,

attacking hospitals, funerals, roads, infrastructure,

everything that you can think of in many ways.

Welcome everybody to another episode of the Magist Street podcast.

I'm Karim and I'm with my brothers, of course, Sari and Osama, who are in California.

And today we decided to have a conversation about Yemen,

which is always in the news and for various reasons. And I think we need to have a kind of

longer conversation to understand what's going on. And we're very happy to have with us

to help explain this. Farah al-Muslimi, who's

a research fellow at the Chatham House in London, and his research focuses on Yemen and the

wider region. And Fara co-founded the Sana Center for Strategic Studies, which is Yemen's

premier think tank, which he directed for over a decade.

I've known Fada for a long time, and we're really looking forward to his discussion,

because Fada, as well, writes in all sorts of journals and newspapers across the world

and is very well known in circles to deal with the Gulf and with Yemen.

So Fadda, welcome to the

Magdisi Street podcast. We're happy to have you on. And I thought maybe we would begin the

conversation since there was just right now, very recently a few days ago, a new government

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