Isa Blumi: Yemen Is Holding Its Own Against The Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 27 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Scholar Isa Blumi returns to refresh our memories on what the war on Yemen is all about, his view on the current state of the conflict which has now passed the seven year mark, and how the Yemenis are holding their own against the empire. The West and GCC countries are bleeding money in this conflict which may lead to the collapse of a number of Gulf countries.
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About Isa Blumi
Isa Blumi is Docent/Associate Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University within the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies from New York University (NYU-2005) and a Master of Political Science and Historical Studies (1995) from The New School for Social Research, New York.
Dr. Isa Blumi joined Stockholm University in late 2015 after spending the previous 12 years teaching and researching at universities located in Germany, Belgium, Turkey, the USA, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and Albania/Kosovo. Over these years, Dr. Blumi has mentored students and directed MA and PhD projects. Several of these former students currently teach at Spelman College, UC-Davis, Princeton, Yeshiva, Iowa State, and the University of Amsterdam. Since joining Stockholm University, Dr. Blumi has mentored four graduate students who have successfully defended their PhDs at the Universities of Geneva, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Antwerp. Currently, Dr. Blumi is supervising the PhD projects of students attending the Departments of History at UCLA and UC-Davis, Gender Studies at SOAS, while four former MA students at Stockholm University’s Middle Eastern Studies program have since moved into PhD programs in Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Arab History at the American University of Beirut, and Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | The Geopolitics and Empire podcast is joined by Professor Issa Blumi, who is senior lecturer of Turkish Studies at the Stockholm University Institute and author of destroying Yemen. |
| 0:10.0 | What chaos in Arabia tells us about the world. |
| 0:13.0 | Thanks for returning to geopolitics and Empire Issa. It's been too long. How are you doing? |
| 0:18.0 | Well, it's nice to be back. Unfortunately, the topic, the theme is rather depressing. |
| 0:24.6 | And I'm not a depressed person, but it's always frustrating to have to always talk about the bad news. |
| 0:32.6 | But I think in the case of Yemen, there's so little attention in respect to Yemen and what's going on there. |
| 0:39.8 | That I'm actually quite grateful that you are interested in hearing what I have to say about it. |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.7 | And on that note that you said, it would have been good if we didn't have to talk about this, do this podcast today. |
| 0:53.9 | It would have been good if |
| 0:54.9 | the war in Yemen would have been over. I think we spoke two or three years ago. And so |
| 1:00.7 | it just keeps going on. And as I said, it's been a few years since I read your book and |
| 1:06.9 | interviewed you. And, you know, what really stands clear in my mind is that this is a war of imperialism, |
| 1:13.4 | Saudi aggression, a power play backed, of course, by the Anglo-American and European establishment. |
| 1:19.6 | Yemen has basically been on mute out of the news cycle for years. Could you refresh sort of everyone's |
| 1:26.3 | memories as to, you know, essentially what the war |
| 1:29.4 | on Yemen is really about? |
| 1:32.6 | Sure. |
| 1:33.7 | Firstly, it is always crucial to remember that all of these crises that we are facing and |
| 1:39.4 | observing today have deep roots, historic roots. |
| 1:42.4 | And as I tried to lay out in the book, for at least 60, 70 years, empire has sought to secure |
| 1:51.9 | influence over the direction in which a very rich part of the Arab world, the Indian |
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