Samar Azazi is a Yemeni scholar who focuses on women, gender, development and post-colonial studies in the Middle East. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies (Women’s Studies) at the School of Gandhian Thought and Development Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
How Yemen’s war devastates people and ecosystems. Desecration is the cruel act of stripping away something’s sacred essence, a heartless violation that mocks or destroys what a person or community holds as holy. This is the pain Sana’a endured, her cherished sanctity torn apart with contempt. Sana’a is the capital cityContinue Reading
In verses of colonial lineage and conflict’s shroud, Samar Azazi traces her odyssey from Pune’s vibrant mosaics to Aurangabad’s Ambedkarian fire and Kerala’s literate lullaby. Analytically unfurling Yemen’s 1.5 million silenced girls against India’s 96% youth literacy rate, she hymns education as a phoenix flight: a lyrical force shattering borders,Continue Reading
A decade of war and humanitarian crisis has cratered Yemen’s education system for girls. In June 1964, Malcom X said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” In Yemen, that passport to the future has been lost in the ashesContinue Reading