Hana* knows that her point of view is in the minority in her country. From Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, the 33-year-old young woman, who works in international trade, expresses deep resentment towards Donald Trump whom she judges “not of sound mind”, “tyrannical” et “disrespectful to women”. A few days before the American presidential election, the thirty-year-old marginally prefers the Democratic candidate, “the one who comes in Biden’s place”. Actually, she forgot her name. A story of personalities, because basically Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, neck and neck in the polls, “will have the same approach to the Middle East”, while the region fears a shift into generalized war.
But there is one thing on which the political science graduate agrees with her compatriots, she believes: “We really, really hate America… Especially in Sanaa…” It has been ten years since the Tehran-backed Houthis took control of his hometown and reign supreme in almost all of western Yemen. If the young woman says she does not support their regime, she nevertheless wants Iran, which supports them, to remain a strong power in the region.
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Clara Hage
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Lebanese French-speaking daily newspaper born in 1971 from a merger between The Orient et The Day, it is one of the most widely read foreign language newspapers in the country and within the Lebanese diaspora, particularly French-speaking. Sovereignist and defender of freedoms, especially during the period of Syrian tutelage (1990-2005), it has long been perceived as the newspaper of the right-wing Christian elite. But it has repositioned itself over the last fifteen years, renewing its editorial team and introducing an English-speaking version of its site, called L’Orient Today. Today it remains one of the newspapers most opposed to the growing influence of Hezbollah, an armed Shiite party supported by Iran.
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