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Amariyya Madrasa in Rada‘
2023
Lavin, Gabriel (2020 US Scholars Fellow)
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Between Yemen, Sudan, and Beyond: An Interview with Dr. Nizar Ghanem. The British Yemeni Society Journal.
Mahdi, Waleed F.
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Contemporary Modes of Yemeni American Agency Between Urgency and Emergence” Journal of American Ethnic History 43,(1): 43-66.
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Sovereignty for Security: The Paradox of Urgency and Intervention in Yemen, in The Struggle to Reshape the Middle East in the 21st Century, editor Samer S. Shehata, 174-192.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Peutz, Nathalie
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Small Things. In Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education, B. Murray et al., eds, 279-293. NY: Palgrave-MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-12350-4_23#DOI
Sadek, Noha
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Engraved Property: The Titles and Names of Rasulid Women on Ayyubid and Mamluk Metalwork.
Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World 4:97–117. https://brill.com/view/journals/mcmw/4/1/mcmw.4.issue-1.xml
Varisco, Daniel Martin
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Agricultural Crops in South Arabia/Yemen in the First Millennium CE. Vegetation History and Archaeology Online First
2022
al-Haj, Mohamed Saleh and Filson, Lily
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Ibb's Grand Mosque: Heritage at Risk in Yemen's Hinterland. International Journal of Islamic Architecture. 11(2):411-428
Feierstein, Gerald M.
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Yemen: Ending the War, Building a Sustainable Peace. Middle East Institute. Available at https:// www.mei.edu/publications/yemen-ending-war-building-sustainable-peace (04.08.2022).
Johnsen, Gregory D.
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The Best of Intentions: How the Biden Administration Tried and Failed to End the War in Yemen. Sana‘a Center for Strategic Studies. Available at https://sanaacenter. org/publications/analysis/17228 (10.05.2022).
Lackner, Helen
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Yemen’s Socialist Experiment Was a Political Landmark for the Arab World. Jacobin. Available at https:// jacobin.com/2022/08/socialism-arab-world-peoples-democratic-republic-of-yemen-history (09.01.2023).
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Saudi Arabia-Yemen Relations: A Long History of Mistrust. OrientXXI. Available at https://orientxxi.info/magazine/kingdom-of-saudi-arabia-republic-of-yemen-relations-back-ground,5709 (21.01.2023).
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Fragmentation Nation: How Europeans Can Help End the Conflict in Yemen. European Council on Foreign Relations. Available at https://ecfr.eu/publication/fragmentation-nation-how-europeans-can-help-end-the-conflict-in-yemen/ (09.01.2023).
Mahoney, Daniel
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Obituaries in Service of the Rasūlid Sultanate in Yemen at the Turn of the 9th/15th Century. Medieval Worlds: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies 15:175-194. Online at https://medievalworlds.net/0xc1aa5576_0x003d788f.pdf
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Medieval Reports of the Preservation and Looting of Pre-Islamic Burials in South Arabia. In Stephennie Mulder, ed., Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies. Bristol: Intellect Press.
Miller, Flagg
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Muslim Hunger Strikes as Secular Critique in Yemen. Journal of Religion and Violence, 229-257. DOI: 10.5840/ jrv202242594
Orkaby, Asher
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Revolutionary Decades: Yemeni National Memory, 1962–2012. The Middle East Journal 76(1:)29-49. DOI:
Schmitz, Charles
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Huthi visions of the state: A Huthi republic with an unofficial imam. The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf, A. Hamidaddin, ed.,199-216. London, ISBN: 978-07-55-64428-5
Varisco, Daniel Martin
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Nûr al-ma‘ârif: A Late Thirteenth Century Rasulid Court Archive. In Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke, eds, Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril, 213-233. New Jersey: Gorgias Press.
2021
Adra, Najwa
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Qabyalah or What Does It Mean to be Tribal in Yemen. In Tribes in Modern Yemen: An Anthology, Marieke Brandt, ed., 21-38. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sammlung Eduard Glaser XVIII. Online at https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/tribes-modern-yemen-an-anthology
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Decolonizing Tribal "Genealogies" in the Middle East and North Africa. International Journal of Middle East Studies 53:492-496.
Al-Hamdani, Raiman
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Yemen in the Biden era: How Europe and the US can press for peace.
Caton, Steven C.
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Power as Persuasion in Yemeni Tribal Society. In Tribes in Modern Yemen: An Anthology, Marieke Brandt, ed., 39-50 (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sammlung Eduard Glaser XVIII. Online at https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/tribes-modern-yemen-an-anthology
Kenney, Ellen
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Treasuring Yemen: Notes on Exchange and Collection in Rasūlid Material Culture. Der Islam 98(1):27-68.
Mahdi, Waleed F.
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Echoes of a Scream: US Drones and Articulations of the Houthi Sarkha Slogan in Yemen. In Cultural Production and Social Movements After the Arab Spring: Nationalism, Politics and Transnational Identity. Eid Mohamed and Ayman El Desouky, eds. 205-221. London: I. B. Tauris.
Mahoney, Daniel
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Evolving Rasūlid Narratives of Opposition to Sultan al-Manṣūr Nūr al-Dīn ‘Umar (d. 647/1250) in Yemen. Der Islam 98(1):153-174.
Margariti, Roxani Eleni
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The Rasūlids and the Bountiful Sea: Marine Resources, State Control, and Maritime Culture in the Southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Der Islam 98(1):69-99.
Moorthy Kloss, Magdalena
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Eunuchs at the Service of Yemen's Rasūlid Dynasty (626-858/1229-1454). Der Islam 98(1):6-26.
Peutz, Nathalie
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Free Citizen to Real Refugee: Yemeni Minorities at the Margins in 2011 and 2021. Items: Insights from the Social Sciences
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Crisis as Preexisting Condition: Yemen Between Cholera, Coronavirus, and Starvation. In Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus, Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade, eds., pp. 295-319. Chicago: Hau Books.
Schmitz, Charles
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The Politics of Tribal Perseverance. International Journal of Middle East Studies 53:497-501.
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A Parasitic Political Economy. In Building a New Yemen, Amat al-Alim Alsoswa and Noel Brehony, editors,119-135. London: I. B. Tauris
Varisco, Daniel Martin
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The Trials and Tribulations of the Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Mujâhid ‘Alî (d. 764/1363). Mamluk Studies Review 24:255-281. Online at https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3545
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Reading Rasūlid Maps: An Early 14th Century Geographical Resource. Der Islam 98(1):100-152.
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Qabīlah, Jirbah and Tanmiyah: Tribes and Agriculture in the Northern Highlands of Yemen. In Tribes in Modern Yemen: An Anthology, Marieke Brandt, ed., 79-93 (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sammlung Eduard Glaser XVIII. Online at https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/tribes-modern-yemen-an-anthology
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A Late Yemeni Copy of Rasulid Almanac Lore. Yemen: Arab Felix Center for Studies. Online at https://arabiafelixstudies.com/en/a-late-yemeni-copy-of-rasulid-almanac-lore/
2020
Al-Hamdani, Raiman and Helen Lackner
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Talking to the Houthis: How Europeans can promote peace in Yemen. European Council on Foreign Relations.
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War and pieces: Political divides in southern Yemen. European Council on Foreign Relations.
Caton, Steven C.
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New Old Imperialisms in the Arabian Peninsula. In History of the Present, 10 (1): 101–116. Special Issue, Empires Off-Center
Liebhaber, Sam
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Messages, Texts , and Rhetorical Detachment in Contemporary Mahri Poetry. Revista de Filología Hispánica (RILCE) 36 vol. 4:1403-14.
Peutz, Nathalie
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Gate of Tears. The Berlin Journal, a magazine from the American Academy in Berlin 34: 64–66.
Philbrick Yadov, Stacey
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Effective Citizenship, Civil Action, and the Prospects for Post-Conflict Justice in Yemen. International Journal of Middle East Studies 52(:)4: 754-758.
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Fragmentation, Disintegration, and Reintegration in Yemen: Assessing the Islamist Field. Middle Eastern Law and Governance 12(1):14-34.
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Securing Peace by Engaging Justice in Yemen. POMEPS Studies 42: Frozen Conflicts, Washington, DC: Project on Middle East Political Science, 81-86. https://pomeps.org/pursuing-peace-by-engaging-justice-in-yemen
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Women’s Role in Peacebuilding in Yemen. (with Iman al-Gawfi and Bilkis Zabara), CARPO Brief 14, Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient, 27 February. https://carpo-bonn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/carpo_brief_14.pdf
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Non-State Actors and Approaches to the Yemeni State. POMEPS Studies 37: Challenges to the MENA Inclusionary State, Washington, DC: Project on Middle East Political Science, 18-20. https://pomeps.org/non-state-actors-and-approaches-to-the-yemeni-state
Varisco, Daniel Martin
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Review of: Al-Malik al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī b. Dāwūd al-Rasūlī, Bughyat al-fallāḥīn fī al-ashjār al-muthmira wa-l-rayāḥīn. Edited by Khālid Khalfān b. Nāṣir al-Wahībī (Damascus: Dār al-Farqad, 2016). Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 28: 443-447. https://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/al-usur-al-wusta/current-issue/
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[Authors: Luke R. Tembrock, Mark P. Simmons, Christopher M. Richards, Patrick A. Reeves, Ann Reilley, Manuel A. Curto, Harald Meimberg, Grace Ngugi, Sebsebe Demissew, Abdul Wali Al Khulaidi, Mansoor Al-Thobhani, Sheron Simpson, and Daniel M. Varisco] Clonal Diversity, Cultivar Traits, Geographic Dispersal, and the Ethnotaxonomy of Cultivated Qat (Catha edulis, Celastracaea).
Economic Botany 74(3)273-291.
2019
Peutz, Nathalie
• The Fault of our Grandfathers: Yemen's Third Generation Migrants Seeking Refuge from Displacement. International Journal of Middle East Studies 51(3):357-376.
• Markazi: A Camp at a Crossroads. Europe Now. Council for European Studies (CES), Issue 25. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2019/03/04/markazi.
Philbrick Yadov, Stacey
• Toward a Just Peace in Yemen. [with Jillian Schwedler]. Middle East Report, 289 (Winter), 2-7.
• Fragmentation, Disintegration, and Reintegration in Yemen: Assessing the Islamist
Field. Middle Eastern Law and Governance, forthcoming.
• Republic of Yemen.” In Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. 9th edition. Sean L. Yom, ed.London: Routledge Press.
• The Fight for Yemen. Middle East Report, # 298 (contributing editor).
• Yemen Offers Lessons at Different Scales. APSA-MENA Newsletter 2 (1): 36-41.
Sagaria Rossi, V. & Sabine Schmidtke
The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition (ZMT) Project. Digitizing the Collections of Yemeni Manuscripts in Italian Libraries. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies (COMSt) Bulletin 5/1:43-60.
Varisco, Daniel Martin
• Pumping Yemen Dry: A History of Yemen’s Water Crisis. Human Ecology 47:317-329.
• When the State becomes a Non-State: Yemen between the Huthis, Hirak and al- Qa‘ida. In Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World: The Ideology and Politics of Non-State Actors. In Peter Sluglett, Victor Kattan, eds., 137-160. London: I.B. Tauris.
• The Yemeni Connection. In Cosmos Coffee, Melanie Jahreis, Sara Marquart, Nina Möllers, eds., 110-113. Munich: Deutsches Museum.
2018
Adra, Najwa
• Tales from al-Ahjur. Yemen Cultural Institute for Heritage and the Arts.
Online at https://www.yciha.org/tales-from-alahjur/
Carapico, Sheila
• War and De-development. In POMEPS, 29. Online at: https://pomeps.org/politics-governance-and-reconstruction-in-yemen
Mahoney, Dan
• Writing the Ethnic Origins of the Rasulids in Late Medieval South Arabia. The Medieval History Journal 21(2):1-20.
Philbrick Yadov, Stacey
• Ethnography is an Option: Learning to Learn in/through Practice. In Political Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa: Methodological and Ethical Challenges. Janine A. Clark and Francesco Cavatorta, eds. Oxford University Press, 165-175.
• (Re)constituting Community: Takfir and Institutional Design in Tunisia and Yemen. [with Ian M. Hartshorn] Terrorism and Political Violence 30 (1):
• Fragmentation and Localization in Yemen’s War: Challenges and Opportunities for Peace. Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Policy Brief 128, November.
• Politics, Governance, and Reconstruction in Yemen. POMEPS Studies, 29. Washington, DC: Project on Middle East Political Science. (Editor and contributor)
Schmitz, Charles
• Yemeni Economy. In The Middle East and North Africa 2018. N.Y.: Routledge.
• Yemen, the Forgotten Conflict. OASIS International Foundation of Milan. 14 September 2018. Online at: https://www.oasiscenter.eu/en/war-in-yemen-who-is-involved
Varisco, Daniel Martin
• Agriculture in the Northern Highlands of Yemen: From Subsistence to Cash Cropping. Journal of Arabian Studies 8(2):171-192.
• The State of Agriculture in the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, 1918-1962: A Documentary Overview. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Austrian Academy of Sciences, AAS WORKING PAPERS IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Volume 32. Online at http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/wpsa32.
2017
Alaug, Abdul Karim
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Tribal Engagement in the Yemen National Dialogue Conference: Anthropological Perspective. Journal of the Faculty of Arts & Social Science, Sana'a University, issue no. 38, 178-206.
Carapico, Sheila
• Perspective: Arabia Infelix: The War Devouring Yemen. Current History 116(794):360-362.
Khalidi, Lamya
The Destruction of Yemen and Its Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 49(4):735-738.
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
Paradise Built: al-Shahari's Description of Sanaa in Twelfth/Eighteenth Century. in Architectural Heritage of Yemen: Buildings that Fill my Eye. London: Gingko Library.
Mahoney, Dan
The Role of Horses in the Politics of Late Medieval South Arabia. Arabian Humanities 8. Online at https://journals.openedition.org/cy/3287
Peutz, Nathalie
Heritage in (the) Ruins. International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 49(4):721-728.
Philbrick Yadov, Stacey
• Yemen. In Rethinking Political Islam, Shadi Hamid and Will McCants, eds, 88-100. Oxford University Press.
• Sectarianization, Islamist Republicanism, and International Misrecognition in Yemen. In Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East, edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel. Oxford University Press, 185-198.
• The Ties That Bind: Interview with Rabyaah al-Thaibani. Middle East Report, 281.
Schmitz, Charles
• Yemen’s Importance to Saudi Arabia. The Cipher Brief, 24 Feb 2017. Online at: https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/exclusive/middle-east/yemens-importance-saudi-arabia-1091
Varisco, Daniel Martin
• Yemen’s Tribal Idiom: An Ethno-Historical Survey of Genealogical Models. Journal of Semitic Studies LXII(1):217-241.
• Date Palm Production in Rasulid Yemen. Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture, 14. Berlin: EB-Verlag.
• Conclusion: Searching for a Resolution. In Yemen and the Gulf States the Making of a Crisis, edited by Helen Lackner and Daniel Martin Varisco, 101-111. Berlin: Gerlach.
• [Authors: Luke R. Tembrock, Mark P. Simmons, Christopher M. Richards, Patrick A. Reeves, Ann Reilley, Manuel A. Curto, Harald Meimberg, Grace Ngugi, Sebsebe Demissew, Abdul Wali Al Khulaidi, Mansoor Al-Thobhani, Sheron Simpson, and Daniel M. Varisco] Phylogeography of the Wild and Cultivated Stimulant Plant Qat (Catha edulis, Celastraceae) in Areas of Historical Cultivation.American Journal of Botany 104(4):538–549.
2016
Adra, Najwa
• Tribal Mediation and Empowered Women: Potential Contributions of Heritage to
National Development in Yemen. International Journal of Islamic Art 5(2):301-337.
• Tribalism. Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol. 2, 2nd. Edition.
Richard C. Martin, ed., 1185-1188. Farmington HIlls, MI: Gale.
• Dance. Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol. 2, 2nd Edition.
Richard C. Martin, ed, 276-279. Farmington HIlls, MI: Gale.
Mahdi, Waleed
Mahoney, Dan
• The Political Agency of Kurds as an Ethnic Group in Late Medieval South Arabia. Medieval Worlds 3: 146-157.
• The Political Construction of a Tribal Genealogy from Early Medieval South Arabia. In Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia, E. Hovden, C. Lutter, and W. Pohl, eds., 163-182. Leiden: Brill.
• Ceramic Production in the Yemeni Central Highlands during the Islamic Period. In Landscapes of the Islamic World: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography, S. McPhllips and P. Wordsworth, eds., 129-142. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Messick, Brinkley
• Islamic Texts: The Anthropologist as Reader. In Islamic Studies in the Twenty-First Century, Buskens and A. van Sandwijk, eds., 29-46. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Schmitz, Charles
• Yemen Factions, Saudi Arabia Escalate Aimless War. Middle East Institute, 11 Oct 2016 Online at http://www.mei.edu/content/article/yemeni-factions-saudi-arabia-escalate-aimless-war
• Resources and Conflict in Yemen. Strifeblog.org, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Online at http://www.strifeblog.org/2016/09/21/resource-induced-conflicts-part-v-society-resources-and-conflict-in-yemen/
• Why Yemen is not an American Priority. In Real Clear Politics. Online at
http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2016/09/15/why_yemen_is_not_an_american_priority.html republished at the Middle East Institute http://www.mei.edu/content/article/why-yemen-isnt-american-priority
• The War in Yemen. with Paul Salem, September 2016 a podcast by the Middle East Institute. Online at http://www.mei.edu/content/at/war-yemen-political-impasse-and-humanitarian-crisis
• There are no Clear Winners in the Saudi War on Yemen. with Kourosh Ziabari, The Fair Observer. Online at: http://www.fairobserver.com/region/middle_east_north_africa/there-are-no-clear-winners-in-the-saudi-war-on-yemen-00226/
2015
Adra, Najwa
• Don’t Throw Out the Baby With Social Evolution: Revisiting “Tribe” in the Middle
East and North Africa. Anthropology News, November-December.
• Insight on Conflict. After the Bombing: Can Tribal Institutions Help Rebuild
Yemen? Online at http://www.insightonconflict.org/2015/05/can-tribal-institutions-helprebuild-
yemen/
Philbrick Yadov, Stacey
• The ‘Yemen Model’ as a Failure of Political Imagination. International Journal of Middle East Studies 47 (1): 144-147.
• Eroding Adaptability Among Yemen’s Muslim Brothers. In Rethinking Political Islam: Islamists Respond to a Changing Landscape. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
Varisco, Daniel Martin
• The Sectarian Crisis in Yemen: Damage from a Divisive Storm [with Sato-Kan Hiroshi and Junji Kawashima], Middle East Institute Online. Online at: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/sectarian-crisis-yemen-damage-divisive-storm
• Pars Pro Toto Observation: Historical Anthropology in the Textual Field of Rasulid Yemen. History and Anthropology 26(1):92-109.
• Drone Strikes in the War on Terror: The Case of Post-Arab-Spring Yemen. Gulf Studies Center Monograph Series, No. 1. Doha: Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. Pdf online at http://www.qu.edu.qa/static_file/qu/research/Gulf%20Studies/Drone%20Strikes%20in%20the%20War%20on%20Terror%20The%20Case%20of%20Post-Arab-Spring%20Yemen.pdf