“Whoever is president of the United States, nothing will change for the Arab world”

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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