![Followers of the Shi'ite Houthi group attend a gathering at the group's camp near Sanaa September 10, 2014. Yemeni soldiers traded gunfire with Shi'ite Muslim rebels near a military base at the southern entrance to the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, residents said, hours after soldiers killed at least four Shi'ite protesters outside the cabinet building. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR45ODD](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/09/RTR45ODD.jpg/RTR45ODD.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=lbfJyuM_)
Maysaa Shuja al-Deen is a Yemeni journalist who writes for Jadaliyya, Weghat Nazar, and several Yemeni newspapers. A master’s degree student in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo, she has recently finished shooting a documentary about unity and the Southern Movement in Yemen. On Twitter: @maysaashujaa
![Followers of the Shi'ite Houthi group attend a gathering at the group's camp near Sanaa September 10, 2014. Yemeni soldiers traded gunfire with Shi'ite Muslim rebels near a military base at the southern entrance to the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, residents said, hours after soldiers killed at least four Shi'ite protesters outside the cabinet building. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR45ODD](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/09/RTR45ODD.jpg/RTR45ODD.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=lbfJyuM_)
![Followers of the Shi'ite Houthi group shout slogans during a gathering near the Yemeni capital Sanaa August 20, 2014. Countries trying to save Yemen from falling apart at the hands of Islamist militants and separatist movements warned Shi'ite Muslim Houthis on Tuesday to stop trying to gain territory by force and engage in a political transition process. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR4340W](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/08/RTR4340W.jpg/RTR4340W.jpg?h=c2c5b897&itok=KuBFw2iC)
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![People look through the wreckage of the headquarters of Yemen's Islamist Islah party in the northwestern city of Amran July 14, 2014. According to local media, the five-story building was bombed by Shi'ite Muslim tribesmen known as Houthis during recent fighting against army forces in Amran, and there were no casualties. Yemen's president on Sunday demanded the withdrawal of Shi'ite Muslim tribesmen from the provincial city of Amran captured on July 8, in a stand-off that threatens to intensify turmoil in t](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/07/RTR3YMMY.jpg/RTR3YMMY.jpg?h=c2c5b897&itok=1Lgybn_M)
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![Protesters burn tyres during a demonstration against Yemen's fuel shortages in Sanaa June 11, 2014. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Yemeni president's house in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday to call for the fall of the government, angry at a city-wide power cut about to enter its third day and severe petrol shortages. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS BUSINESS) - RTR3T7U4](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/06/RTR3T7U4.jpg/RTR3T7U4.jpg?h=c2c5b897&itok=uhJcxLc5)
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