Ahmed Abdelkareem Saif
is director of the Sheba Centre for Strategic Studies
. Associate dean of the Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies and associate professor of politics at Sana'a University, he holds a PhD in politics from the University of Exeter. He has written extensively on governance and state-society relations in Yemen and the Arab Gulf countries and recently edited Yemen: Politics and Society
(2011), published by SCSS.
Research areas:
Middle East and North Africa
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Complex power relations in Yemen provide opportunities for al-Qaeda
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Ahmed Abdelkareem Saif
9 February 2010
Yemen’s problems are endemic and deeply rooted in the nature of society and its complex power relations. Ahmed Saif argues that state-building and rule of law is the only way to combat terrorism and prevent failure of the state.
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