Hello, Salam. Welcome to you all to this show. I'm Adnan Hussein, a professor of medieval Mediterranean and Islamicate world history, back on the channel with a very important episode and a wonderful guest that I've been looking forward to speaking with for a long time about a very important topic,

which is the history of Yemen and how to understand, contextualize, and explain the remarkable commitment of the Yemeni people to the Palestine Solidarity Movement as almost the only active

and continuing front in the axis of resistance.

So there's a lot to explain there.

But before I introduce my guest, I just wanted to say, as you know, this is a relatively recent and new channel and educational, public educational project.

I used to have a podcast called the Mudgellis associated with the Muslim Society's Global Perspectives Project here at Queen's University.

But when in October 24,

Francesca Albanese was invited to give a lecture, and I endeavored with her permission and that of

the organizers to record it so it could be available in podcast form and for our students

and for public knowledge.

I was told by the university authorities that if I recorded the talk and disseminated it,

they would cancel the lecture.

So at that point, I abandoned the muddiless and all funding and support from the university and started this channel

so that we could continue to have unrestricted real, deep, scholarly analysis and discussion

about the important topics in our world and bring on real scholars to do it.

So if you like, please like and share this video, subscribe to the channel, and if you can,

of course, we'll always make everything free and available to the public. But if you can support,

since we no longer have university support, you can go to patreon.com slash adnan Hussein

with our gratitude and help keep it free and available for all the

others who can't support it.

Without further ado, I'm really delighted to welcome to the show Professor Issa Blumi, who is

professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University.

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