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علي ناصر قايد البخيتيعلي البخيتي، محامي وكاتب سياسي يمني، ولاجئ سياسي مؤخرا في بريطانيا، من مواليد قرية الملحاء مديرية الحدا محافظة ذمارعضو سابق في مؤتمر الحوار الوطني اليمني والمتحدث باسم أنصار الله "الحوثيين" في المؤتمرساند الحوثيين بقوة وكان رأس الحربة وأبرز وجوههم في معركتهم السياسية والإعلاميةتغير موقفه منهم بزاوية ٣٦٠ درجة من حامل راية الجماعة إلى مناهض لهذا المشروعليس هذا فحسب بل دخل في معركة مع الثلاثي المقدس في المجتمعات العربية، تابوهات الدين والعادات والتقاليد..**This is a special Arabic language podcast, future podcasts will be in English and at times also in Arabic. **.. https://www.facebook.com/SahihAlbukhaiti/..https://twitter.com/Ali_Albukhaiti?s=12 .@YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.org ..COVID- 19 Update: 1962 Cases, 1160 Recovered, 570 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Independent Yemeni film and theatre director Amr Gamal returns to the podcast to share more about his work and love for Aden. He talks about the power of comedy, and says, “When you mix tragedy with comedy it’s easier to swallow.” Amr also shares how, as he’s taken his work out of the country, he’s learned that, “People everywhere can understand your art if it’s from your heart.” He speaks candidly about his devotion to the city of Aden and his commitment to do whatever he can to give Aden the justice she deserves. Amr urges Yemenis living abroad, “Go see the world and come back. We need Yemenis to come back and re-build this country. If we all leave, who will stay and who will give justice to Yemen?”@adeniumproadeniumproductions.com@YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.orgCOVID- 19 Update: 1734 Cases, 862 Recovered, 497 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas) 

After nearly all the theaters, cinemas, and stages in Aden were either shut down or destroyed following Yemen’s civil war that ended in 1994, Amr Gamal went on to become an independent Yemeni film and theatre director. He wrote and directed 10 theatre productions between 2005 and 2014 and his play Maak Nazel became the first Yemeni production to be performed in Europe. In 2018, Amr produced his first feature film, 10 Days Before the Wedding. The film premiered in Aden during the summer of 2018 and was screened there for over eight months. The actors who agreed to work on the film, despite the risks and the low budget, told Amr, “It’s better to die out doing something than to die at home doing nothing.” Amr and his team exemplify the spirit of Yemeni resilience – they recognize they have only one life to live and they are fighting every day to make it count.@adeniumprowww.adeniumproductions.com @YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.org COVID- 19 Update: 1726 Cases, 856 Recovered, 487 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Alex Williams, host of Yemen News, joins Affan Syed’s podcast to continue bringing awareness about the Yemen crisis to a global audience. He describes the multiple disease outbreaks that Yemen has faced since the outbreak of the war and continues to celebrate Yemeni resilience. Alex says the real story of Yemen is the story of Yemenis who continue rising up day after day in the face of struggle. While wealthy countries continue fomenting hostility in one of the world’s poorest countries, and use it for their battleground, Alex and his host urge listeners to use any platform they can to turn a spotlight on stories of Yemeni overcomers. @affansyed321@YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.orgCOVID- 19 Update: 1681 Cases,797 Recovered, 479 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Alex Williams, host of Yemen News, talks more about different factions taking advantage of the war in Yemen and asks us to consider where all the weapons being sold to the warring parties really end up. He also describes Yemen’s tribal society as well as the impact of the war on tribal values and continues the theme of Yemeni resilience, saying, “Yemenis can’t be defeated because they have nothing to lose.” Alex and his hosts urge listeners not to take a political side, but to take a “pro-life” stance by bringing up Yemen within their circles of influence and calling for urgent pressure to end the Yemen war. @a2theshow@YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.org COVID- 19 Update: 1629 Cases,741 Recovered, 456 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas) 

Alex Williams, host of Yemen News, takes a turn answering the questions as he breaks down the impact of war, cholera, and COVID-19 on Yemeni families. He tells us how the war in Yemen started over five years ago, and describes the resilience of the Yemeni people through the conflict. Alex also points out that the ongoing bombing campaign is senseless since the Hadi government that it seeks to restore to power lacks real legitimacy. He calls for global pressure on all governments arming the warring parties in Yemen to stop fueling the bloodshed, emphasizing that this war is inhumane and must stop.@a2theshow @scoobz.mp4 @therealalialshammari  @YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.orgCOVID- 19 Update: 1606 Cases, 712 Recovered, 445 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Hadil Al-Ashwal is the Founder & Managing Director of the MENA Advocates for Gender Equality. Born and raised in Yemen, she has lived in different countries in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Hadil holds an MBA from Cardiff Metropolitan University where she was selected as a representative, exemplary woman to inspire others. Currently, she works as a consultant at The World Bank. According to Hadil Yemeni women have gained strength from their struggle against gender inequality saying, “We always have to prove ourselves and this builds our resilience.”@hadilal_ashwal @menaageinitiative@YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.orgCOVID- 19 Update: 1526 Cases, 694 Recovered, 433 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Yemeni Boxer Khalid Twaiti has been fighting professionally for over three years and has a 6-0 record in his professional bouts, with three knockouts under his belt. Khalid is motivated by the resilience of the Yemeni people. Khalid says Yemeni’s have the “heart of a lion” and seeks to use his boxing career to represent Yemenis inside Yemen who can’t represent themselves. Khalid says, “With everybody’s help, not just me, we can help Yemenis be in a better position.”@khalidtwaiti @YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.org COVID- 19 Update: 1465 Cases, 659 Recovered, 417 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Shroq Al Ramadi is the founder of Takween Culture Club, which exists to revive Hadhrami culture. Shroq speaks about the importance of these efforts during a time of political conflict and war that has threatened to strip Hadhrami society of its traditions and cultural identity. Her efforts to research and preserve Hadhrami culture include her graduation project, which is a plan for the Hadhrami House Museum for Art. Although life-saving aid is prioritized in a time of war, Shroq reminds us that reviving socio-cultural identity can also bring people together and play a role in the process of charting a path forward—a path to peace. Shroq tells the Yemeni youth, “I know that we are looking for hope, but we need to remember that we are the hope!”@Shrooqramadi  @takweenyemen @YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.org COVID- 19 Update: 1318 Cases, 595 Recovered, 351 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas) 

Mohammed Murshed is a professional artist from Yemen who addresses Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through his work. He returns to the podcast to describe his personal experiences in Yemen’s ancient places and challenge Yemenis to spend more time researching their own history. He shares about his experiences of being pressured to conform while growing up in Yemen, and how Yemen has been weakened by ideologies and theologies that divide Yemenis rather than uniting them. He urges Yemenis to search for the full picture of their history with all of its color and be strengthened by honoring the diverse influences that have shaped the Yemeni people.@mnmurshed  www.facebook.com/MohammedMurshedstudio/ www.youtube.com/user/mnmurshed www.mnmurshed.com@YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.orgCOVID- 19 Update: 1265 Cases, 552 Recovered, 338 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Mohammed Murshed is a professional artist from Yemen who works with paint, sculpture, video, sound, programming for art, and video games. His work addresses the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that he experiences as a result of living through the war in Yemen, and how he's processing its effects. He is on a journey to being healed of his trauma and wants to shine a light, and bring awareness to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today, the situation that his home country of Yemen now faces. In this episode he describes how art is both an outlet of escape and an outlet for making a positive difference.@mnmurshed  www.facebook.com/MohammedMurshedstudio/ www.youtube.com/user/mnmurshed www.mnmurshed.com@YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.org COVID- 19 Update: 1190 Cases, 504 Recovered, 318 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Tareq Hassan is the Chairman of the International Youth Council -Yemen (IYCY), a leading organization in Yemen active in WASH, Nutrition, Food Security, Health, Shelter, Protection, Governance, Education, Peace, Energy, Environment & Climate Change as well as Youth Development. He was elected as the UN Environment (UNEP) Regional Facilitator for Major Groups and Stakeholders for the West Asia Region in 2015, 2017, and 2020. Tareq shares with us about the importance of integrating sustainability into the emergency aid projects being implemented in Yemen and emphasizes education as a key to developing Yemeni change-makers.@taruqiwww.tareq-hassan.info/@YnewsAW         Alex@yemennews.orgCOVID- 19 Update: 1118 Cases, 430 Recovered, 302 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas) 

Amir Al-Deen Abdulmalik Jahaf is the son of academics who graduated high school as a top student and was awarded a scholarship to study medicine in Egypt. However, when he returned to visit his family in Yemen on summer break, he ended up being detained without trial for two years and three months in hidden prisons. Amir shares his story of resilience with us, and how he managed to survive his harrowing ordeal and recover his well-being. He also shares with us about men who did not survive and were tortured to death before Amir’s own eyes. Their stories challenge us to join Amir in fighting for those who are still in hidden prisons, whose stories are unknown, until they are freed again to enjoy their basic human rights. https://www.facebook.com/amiraldeen.jahaf https://peoplesexaminer.com/i-was-a-prisoner-in-a-saudi-coalition-torture-dungeon-here-is-my-story/?fbclid=IwAR2Sg6x1Ow5JKdVG3MXKGWKQ_qwjnQ7h1b1HCHYxfeT637Lv_7ViqZfdYlU @YnewsAW                               Alex@yemennews.org COVID- 19 Update: 1015 Cases, 379 Recovered, 274 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas) 

Yemeni writer Abobakr Alfaqeeh returns to help us understand the new controversial tax being imposed by the Houthi government as well as the Houthi government’s policies surrounding Covid-19. He talks about the suffering of ordinary Yemeni people living under governments without democratic legitimacy. In the absence of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, Abobakr tells us how the solidarity of the Yemeni people has given him hope. Instead of waiting for the government to do its role, the Yemeni people are taking their own initiative to take care of each other and to take responsibility for the welfare of the communities they live in. @Abobakralfaqeeh@YnewsAWAlex@yemennews.orgCOVID- 19 Update: 941 Cases, 347 Recovered, 256 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Abobaker Al Faqeeh has worked for both local and international media outlets, including the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. In a recent piece, he exposed how both the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition have been actively recruiting and using child soldiers in the Yemen conflict. In this episode, he shares more about the intentional strategies that are being used by Yemen’s warring parties to target children and mobilize them on to the battlefield. He also highlights the factors that make children vulnerable to this recruitment and the importance of educational opportunities, which can decrease the vulnerability of children to recruitment by the warring parties.  @Abobakralfaqeeh@YnewsAWAlex@yemennews.org COVID- 19 Update: 902 Cases, 271 Recovered, 244 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Emad Al Akhali, the Yemeni rapper and hip-hop artist known as YemeKnight shares insights about hip hop culture in Yemen. He tells us how hip-hop culture came to Yemen and how Yemen influenced him as a poet and as a deep thinker. Emad tells us that Yemenis get a “hit of reality” early as they are confronted with issues of life and death at a young age, much like the culture that birthed hip hop. He also describes his methods of telling the Yemeni story through hip-hop by mixing English with Yemeni Arabic lyrics. His goal is to achieve international recognition, while having Yemenis feel, “He’s behind us. He’s telling our story.”@Yemeknighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyLwBFroZys@YnewsAWAlex@yemennews.orgCOVID- 19 Update: 705 Cases, 39 Recovered, 160 Deaths (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Nada Al Ahdal began her activism in 2013 when she was 10 years old by refusing to be a victim of under-age marriage. She fled home to avoid an arranged marriage at the age of 11 and has since established a foundation for the protection of children's rights. Nada has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Children and works on a myriad of issues through her foundation, including the recruitment of child soldiers, underage marriage, and child labour. In this episode, Nada tells us that without awareness, Yemeni families may believe that they are actually protecting a girl by marrying her off at a young age. She explains how she works with her foundation to increase awareness that it is education that will protect a girl’s future, while underage marriage will destroy it. @Nadalahdalwww.nadaalahdal.com & www.nadafund.org@YnewsAWAlex@yemennews.orgCovid 19 Cases: 484 Cases, 112 Deaths, 23 Recovered (Not including Houthi controlled areas)

Nasser Arrabyee, a veteran journalist, has spent the last 20 years telling the stories of Yemenis, including the Yemenis held by the United States in Guantánamo prison who have never been given due process or brought to trial. This includes the story of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, one Yemeni held at Guantanamo who actually was recommended for release by a US court, but never made it home to Yemen after he was found dead in his prison cell. In this episode, Nasser talks about how the Yemeni people remain imprisoned by the on-going war. He tells us that the current COVID-19 outbreak in Yemen doesn’t compare with the war crimes committed by the parties involved in Yemen’s conflict and brings us a sobering reminder about the forces fueling the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today.Twitter: @narrabyeeInstagram: @YnewsAW Tik Tok: @Alexwilliams771 Alex@YemenNews.orgCOVID-19 Cases: 419 Cases, 17 recovered and 95 deaths

Thuraya Dammag represented the Independent Women at the National Dialogue Conference that followed Yemen’s revolution. She was also the coordinator for the International Federation of Reporters in Yemen and has worked as a reporter and editor for many media outlets including the Saba News agency, and many news websites and local newspapers. Currently she works as the editor and chief of Yemen Future website. In this episode, Thuraya talks about the struggles and importance of maintaining objectivity as a journalist in Yemen. She identifies five reasons why Houthi authorities are not being transparent about the real number of COVID-19 cases in the regions they control, and how mis-information and lack of information is creating an environment in which many Yemenis aren’t following the COVID-19 prevention guidelines that could save lives.@thurayadamma#ThurayaDammaj@YNewsAWCovid-19: 323 Cases, 80 Deaths and 14 Recovered (Not Including cases in the Houthi governed areas)

Haifa Subai portrays the devastating effects of war in her art on the streets of Yemen. Influenced by the armed conflict she has witnessed in her country since the start of the Arab Spring until now, Haifa launched an advocacy campaign called Silent Victims, which highlights women’s and children’s issues in the time of war. Her special exhibition called “War & Human” is featured at the Singapore Art Museum. In this episode, Haifa shares how her supportive family environment helped her to thrive, and how she has used her opportunities to be a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. Haifa challenges Yemenis with access to life-saving awareness messages about COVID-19 to take responsibility for spreading these key messages to every level of Yemeni society.@haifasubay@YnewsAWAlex@Yemennews.orgCovid -19: 256 Cases, 10 Recovered and 53 deaths