Yemeni Humanitarians Endure: "From Empowered Professionals to Vulnerable Recipients"
A guest open letter on protecting the protectors — women humanitarian workers "rendered invisible" — as navigated by Yemeni writer Jawaher Al Wadei
Above the War
Near-weekly diaries, interviews, and open letters by Yemeni storytellers and war survivors. Critiques of power in the form of lived literary nonfiction. Like a Qamariya window, let the light in.
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By Divine Right: "These Rules Don't Apply to the Elites" (Part II)
A diary of a thousand-year war on Yemeni life, from revisiting "the kind of leader we all dream of" to reliving the betrayal
By Divine Right: "The Injustice Was Written on the Very Bodies of the People" (Part I)
A diary of the 11-year war on Yemeni life, from criminal military campaigns to entrenched class warfare
In Red Ink: "I Decided I Would Not Die Twice"
A guest diary of personal and collective growth despite "siege and suppression," as told by Yemeni writer Inas Abd Al-Zuwar
Yemeni War Survivors: "How Much Longer Must We Wait for Justice?"
A guest open letter on Yemen's "decade of agony" without accountability as documented by Yemeni rights defender Khawla Al-Rowaishan
Fragile Peace Archives: "Distance Turns Survival Into Reflection" (Part I)
A diary on how to "exist without emergency" as the warzone invades body and home
Unlimited in Nature: "An Impossible Demand for an Irreparable Loss"
A guest entry from Yemeni journalist Afrah Nasser on the catastrophic war that robbed her country of the past decade — via Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
Carved Into Yemen: "How War Consumes the Most Innocent Lives First" (Part II)
A guest open letter from Yemeni artist Haifa Subay, whose Sana’a-based mural “Child of Bones” honors lives cruelly silenced
Fragile Peace Archives: "Carried in Exhausted Hands"
A diary on carrying the "dual responsibility" of survivor and witness, enduring beyond headline and recognition
The Invisible Wars: "A Heavy Mountain in My Head and Over All My Body" (Part II)
An interview with site co-founder Elham Al-Oqabi on navigating battlefields, known and unknown, when "there is no such thing as a minor injustice"
The Invisible Wars: "Taking Her Life Away, Piece by Piece" (Part I)
A diary-style entry, first written two decades ago, on behalf of a survivor besieged by patriarchy and parasitic hallucinations
Fragile Peace Archives: "Evidence That Peace, Even When Fragile, Matters" (Part III)
A Yemen-rooted photo essay through the lens and life of Amira Al-Sharif. "Women carry fragile peace in their bodies," she writes, "in their nerves, in the spaces between words."
Fragile Peace Archives: "You Are Worth a Bullet"
A diary of wartime memories from Yemen that reveal the meaning of life in an instant
Fragile Peace Archives: "The Uncelebrated Work of Endurance"
A diary of survival despite "negotiation without resolution," enduring beyond headline and measure
To My Children: "You Are the Mountains That Will Rise From the Rubble" (Part II)
A guest diary by Yemeni writer Inas Abd Al-Zuwar on airstrikes and animosities that exact “permanent marks” across Yemen's rising generations
To My Children: "A Battlefield We Never Chose" (Part I)
A guest letter from Yemeni writer Inas Abd Al-Zuwar to the “coming mountains" — Yemen’s generations born into a homeland at war
Fragile Peace Archives: "Evidence That Peace, Even When Fragile, Matters" (Part II)
A Yemen-rooted photo essay through the lens and life of Amira Al-Sharif. "Fragile peace," she writes, "demands more strength than open war."
Fragile Peace Archives: "Every Photo Is Resistance Against Erasure"
A diary on “healing and confronting” moments of fragile peace, accessed through the rooted memory and the sacred archive
Fragile Peace Archives: "Evidence That Peace, Even When Fragile, Matters" (Part I)
A Yemen-rooted photo essay through the lens and life of Amira Al-Sharif. "Fragile peace is not the absence of war," she writes. "It is the daily negotiation of safety inside instability."
My Fragile Peace: "Women Hold the Sky"
A diary on rising above repeated traumas — and hollow mantras — as "systems collapse" across Yemen