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John M. Willis. Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni Past 1857-1934

The recent youth uprisings in Yemen have exposed the inability of the regime to address regional challenges to the authority of the state. The Zaydi revivalist (al-Huthi) rebellion in the far north and the ‘Southern Question’ have cast doubt on the tenets of the unification of the country in 1990, and our own perceptions of what constitutes a uniform Yemeni identity and geographical space. In this book, Professor Willis has set himself the task of exploring the construction of North and South Yemen, not as points of social affiliation, but as distinct historical spaces, thus explaining the persistence of ‘North’ and ‘South’ as categories of analysis, and the local attachment to their historical memory more than 20 years after the respective states ceased to exist. To this end, he uses as a terminus ad quem of his research the year 1934, in which the Anglo-Yemeni Treaty was signed, bringing an end to a protracted period of uncertainty and outright hostility between the Imamate of Yemen and the British Aden Protectorate.