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Hizb al-Haqq the Zaydi party that broke with Zaydi tradition to become a party, is showing how all the different schools of Islam can live together.News Yemen also reports on […]

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Gregory Johnsen

December 21, 2010

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Hizb al-Haqq the Zaydi party that broke with Zaydi tradition to become a party, is showing how all the different schools of Islam can live together.

News Yemen also reports on troubles in Aden between security forces and workers at an oil company.

There is much more news, of course, but that is all I’m reading this morning. I owe too many people e-mails.

Gregory Johnsen

Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton University

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