After Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Nansur Hadi delivered a speech the night of Eid al-Fitr calling for national reconciliation based on core national principles – the Republic, unity and the resolutions of the last National Dialogue Conference – Yemeni intellectuals, elites and ordinary citizens were floored by an image broadcast on Yemen’s official [government-controlled] television station – an image that seemed to sizzle with symbolism and conspiracy, suggesting that any gains imagined in Yemen’s version of the Arab Spring might have turned on their collective head.

Originally published in Money.

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