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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Understanding the Crisis in Yemen

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Eric Nagourney, an international desk editor for the New York Times, explains the paper’s decision to publish harrowing photographs of malnourished Yemeni children. And Fatima Alasrar, a Yemeni and a senior analyst for the Arabia Foundation, explains why she thinks assigning blame for Yemen’s famine is complicated. We’ll be piloting What Next in public for the next several weeks. Tell us what you think: whatnext@slate.com. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show, our weekend reading lists, and occasional posts about pita chips. Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon. Engineering by Terence Bernardo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I raise for life for my best friend who we lost to soon.

0:04.0

I raise for life for my mom who was diagnosed with bowel cancer.

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I raise for life from a dad who's living with prostate cancer.

0:12.0

I raise for life for everyone who's in cancer.

0:17.0

Who will you, Raceful?

0:19.0

Sign up to your local event at raceforlife.org

0:23.0

And together we will be cancer.

0:27.0

Improving the sheet with headline sponsors Standard Life.

0:30.0

If you picked up a copy of The New York Times this past Sunday,

0:33.0

you were probably struck by this photo just below the fold on A1.

0:37.0

It is shocking, right?

0:39.0

I mean, I'm looking at it right now.

0:41.0

It's a seven-year-old girl and she looks like a baby bird.

0:45.0

She's so thin.

0:46.0

Right, and in that same image, what struck some of us is she's also, you know,

0:51.0

gives the impression of just looking away with which both makes it easier

0:56.0

and harder to look and to take it in.

0:59.0

This little girl is named Amal Hussein.

1:02.0

She lives in Yemen and she's starving.

1:05.0

The reaction has been, I thought we might get based on other stories and, you know, over the years.

1:12.0

I thought we might get people protesting the use of such graphic imagery.

1:16.0

But for the most part, actually, I didn't hear any protests.

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