Importing the Revolution: Institutional change and the Egyptian presence in Yemen 1962-1967

Rogers, Joshua

Abstract

On the night of 26 September 1962, a column of T-34 tanks trundled through the streets of Sanaa and surrounded the palace of the new Imam of Yemen, Muhammad al-Badr, who had succeeded his father Imam Ahmad (r. 1948-62) only one week earlier. Opening fire shortly before midnight, the Yemeni Free Officers announced the ‘26 September Revolution’ on Radio Sanaa and declared the formation of a new state: the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR). The revolution drew on support from a domestic coalition of military officers, Aden-based traders and trade-unionists, reformist Imamate officials, and tribal leaders the Imam had antagonised it...

Citation

Rogers, J. (2018). Importing the Revolution: Institutional change and the Egyptian presence in Yemen 1962-1967. In M. O. Jones, R. Porter, & M. Valeri (Eds.), Gulfization of the Arab World (113-133). Gerlach. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvvnh8v.9

• Publication Date: Mar 31, 2018
• Deposit Date: Apr 25, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 25, 2018
• Pages: 113-133
• Book Title: Gulfization of the Arab World
• ISBN: 9783959940320
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvvnh8v.9