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Kamal Al-Solaylee on the war we chose to forget

Kamal Al-Solaylee on the war we chose to forget

FromThe Decibel


Kamal Al-Solaylee on the war we chose to forget

FromThe Decibel

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Mar 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The UN has called it the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s now seven-year-long war has killed almost 400,000 people, mostly children younger than five years old. Millions of people in the country are at risk of famine.And the war, between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition trying to push them out, rages on.Kamal Al-Solaylee was born in Yemen. He’s a journalist, author, professor, and Director of the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia. He explains that the war is deliberately forgotten by the world, why that is, and why he thinks Canada’s millions in aid to Yemen doesn’t tell the full story of our role in the conflict.
Released:
Mar 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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