For Faizah al-Sulimani, the hope stirred by Yemen’s Arab Spring uprising has long since faded.
Four years ago, she joined the wave of nonviolent demonstrations that rippled across the Middle East and led to the ouster of entrenched autocrats, including Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh. Sulimani’s optimism, however, quickly turned to bitterness over what followed — a post-revolutionary order that she and many of her fellow Yemeni protesters consider as corrupt and inept as the one they had struggled to overturn.
Yet, even they never imagined that things would get this bad. A civil war looms after Shiite Houthi rebels deposed the government last month and dissolved parliament...