As in the previous set of data, they ‘talked around the text’ and focused on the difference in conventions in how people talk about relationships: what can you say and what not? The students are relating it to previous knowledge and experience gained when living in the Netherlands. The exchange student, Marijke, responded as I had expected, saying that this kind of discourse certainly does not surprise her, but the regular students of the class did not seem to want to pursue this line of analysis. In the fragment below I am trying to bring this discussion into the foreground. This discourse was made more acceptable by another discourse which also carried a Dutch flavour: that of therapy and self-development, which, I thought, would equally have been out of place in an English magazine aimed at men. As I describe in more detail in Chapter 4, my own interpretation had been that the extreme traditional positioning of women as needing to find fulfilment through motherhood, would not have been acceptable in an English publication, not even in a men’s one. I asked students whether they felt that this issue would have been written about in a similar way in an English magazine aimed at men. Students had indeed recognized the global, or at least western, the relevance of the text and made intertextual references to American and English soaps and films.
The war has killed some 130,000 people, including over 13,000 civilians slain in targeted attacks, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Project.\( \newcommand\)Įven though the topic discussed was transcultural, and certainly not specifically Dutch, as mentioned, I felt this particular texts showed what I called Dutch articulations in the text. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other countries, entered the war alongside Yemen’s internationally-recognised government in March 2015. Yemen’s war began in September 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital Sana’a and began a march south to try to seize the entire country. “The time is now to find an end to this conflict.” “We urge the Houthis to refrain from destabilising actions and demonstrate their commitment to constructively engage in UN Special Envoy Griffiths’ efforts to achieve peace,” Price said in the statement. The sessions are part of a broader effort to negotiate a political solution to the nearly six-year conflict pitting the Houthis against Yemeni government forces supported by a Saudi-led military coalition. Martin Griffiths was set to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other officials during his two-day visit, his office said. But some Gulf region analysts expressed concern the delisting could encourage Houthis to resume attacks on Arab Gulf targets so as to exert pressure on the US on behest of Tehran.Įarlier Sunday, the UN special envoy for Yemen arrived on his first visit to Iran for talks on the grinding war.
“We call on the Houthis to immediately cease attacks impacting civilian areas inside Saudi Arabia and to halt any new military offensives inside Yemen, which only bring more suffering to the Yemeni people.”įriday’s delisting had been hailed by relief agencies who had slammed the Trump administration for putting the Houthis on the list in its waning days in office. “As the president is taking steps to end the war in Yemen and Saudi Arabia has endorsed a negotiated settlement, the United States is deeply troubled by continued Houthi attacks,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. It also came just three days after Biden ordered an end to US support for the Saudi-led offensive military operations against the rebels. The demand came only two days after the administration notified Congress that it would remove the Houthis from its list of “foreign terrorist organizations,” a designation that comes with severe US sanctions.
The State Department called on the Iran-backed militant group to immediately stop attacks on civilians in Saudi Arabia and new military operations in Yemen. WASHINGTON-The administration of US President Joe Biden on Sunday warned Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels against ongoing attacks against civilians in Saudi Arabia and military operations within Yemen, just 48 hours after moving to strike the group from a terrorism blacklist.
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