Skip to content
Guest Thinkers

What Yemen Needs

Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

We all know Yemen is in trouble: A resurgent al-Qaeda, a revolt in the north, increasingly violent actions in the south, no oil, no water, a growing youth bulge, declining literacy rates, extensive poverty and of course a weak currency that led to a new head of the Central Bank.

But none of those is what threatens Yemen’s future. Instead, at least according to a meeting of scholars at al-Iman University, what Yemen really, truly needs is a department of Shari’a in its secondary schools.

Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Related

Up Next
Brian O’Neill of Always Judged Guilty has an op-ed on Yemen and the future – post AQAP strikes on the Huthis – in the National. You should read it.I have […]