By Thijl Sunier – Those who were in the Netherlands between 6-8 November could not possibly have missed it. Riots broke out around a football match between the Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv team and Ajax, which took place in Amsterdam’s main football station Amsterdam Arena. The clashes were between the supporters of Maccabi and purportedly Dutch-Moroccan youngsters. In the night the city became the scene of a grim confrontation between several groups and the police.
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By Marina de Regt – On Thursday the 26th of September, my social media filled up with messages commemorating Yemen’s revolution of 1962. I read poems and short texts accompanied by pictures of the Yemeni…
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By Bariş Eser – Neither the student organizers nor the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Board of Directors (CvB) expected the outpouring of support upon the eviction of the first encampment at the Roeterseiland campus. The…
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By Ewa Strzelecka and Marina de Regt – This June will be remembered as a month of celebrating Yemeni studies and dialogue in the Netherlands. The so-called forgotten war of Yemen became a war to…
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On the outskirts of the old city of Sanaa.
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By Marina de Regt. “Marina, if I die, will you then forgive me for all the trouble that I caused you?” my Yemeni friend Amina wrote me ten days ago. I have known Amina since…
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By Marina de Regt For years, humanitarian organisations in Jordan and Lebanon have been concerned about the increasing number of “child marriages” among Syrian refugees. While early marriages of girls (between 14-18 year) have also…
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BY MARINA DE REGT “Marina, how are you? I am worried about you, how is the situation with Corona?” a Yemeni friend asked me last week via Whatsapp. It was not the first time that…
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Door Marina de Regt In het Volkskrant magazine van afgelopen zaterdag 26 januari j.l. doet journaliste Ana van Es verslag van haar bezoek aan Jemen. De Midden-Oosten correspondente valt hier van de ene verbazing in de andere: alle stereotypen over man-vrouwverhoudingen in de Arabische wereld worden volgens haar in Jemen bevestigd. Vrouwen moeten zich zwaar sluieren, ze moeten zich onzichtbaar maken, ze worden continu lastig gevallen door mannen, ze worden gedwongen jong te trouwen, ze kunnen niet buitenshuis werken, als ze werken wordt hun geld afgepakt door hun mannen en ze hebben geen enkele politieke invloed. Op ironische wijze doet ze verslag van haar ervaringen, en dat levert een smeuïg verhaal op dat het goed doet aan de borreltafel. Maar wat is de toegevoegde waarde van dit verhaal? En waar zijn haar conclusies op gebaseerd?
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