{"id":16674,"date":"2015-04-10T23:54:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T03:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=16674"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:09:41","slug":"adil-najam-voa-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/04\/10\/adil-najam-voa-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Najam Discusses Yemen Conflict on VOA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/04\/A-Yemeni-army-defector-jo-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/04\/A-Yemeni-army-defector-jo-007.jpg\" alt=\"A-Yemeni-army-defector-jo-007\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16676\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Prof. Adil Najam<\/a>, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston Univeristy, believes that for many Muslim countries &#8211; including Pakistan &#8211; the\u00a0conflict in Yemen has become an unfortunate and dangerous distraction.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><span>Speaking on the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urduvoa.com\/\">Voice of America (VOA)<\/a><span>\u00a0Urdu Service news show\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urduvoa.com\/media\/all\/independence-avenue\/latest.html?z=3796\">Independence Avenue<\/a><span>, Dean Najam argued<\/span>\u00a0that in many ways the conflict in Yemen is a &#8220;manufactured crisis&#8221; which has &#8220;less to do with Yemen and is much more about the regional balance of power ploys between Saudi Arabia and Iran.&#8221; He suggested that this has also become a &#8220;costly distraction&#8221; from the much more important challenges that now face the countries of the Muslim world; namely, extreme militant groups like ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Shabab, Taliban, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"273\" src=\"http:\/\/urduvoa.share.voanews.eu\/flashembed.aspx?t=vid&amp;id=2714427&amp;w=480&amp;h=273&amp;skin=embeded\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Najam warned against more and more Muslim countries being drawn into this conflict. This would happen, he said, not because the conflict needed more troops but simply because Saudi Arabia, in particular, is using the conflict as a show of alliances and allegiances within and beyond the Arab world. He suggested that despite the pressure, Pakistan should try to stay away from the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>A recording to the full show on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urduvoa.com\/media\/video\/independence-avenue\/2714427.html?z=0&amp;zp=1\">VOA<\/a>\u00a0can be viewed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urduvoa.com\/media\/video\/independence-avenue\/2714427.html?z=0&amp;zp=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Adil Najam discusses the conflict in Yemen and its implications on the Muslim world with VOA Urdu Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410,8434],"tags":[8802,1720,1819,8751,8748,8752,8750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16682,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions\/16682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}