Islah anchors the 2011 uprising and the GCC transition that ousted Saleh

Islah was the principal organized force behind the 2011 popular uprising against Ali Abdullah Saleh — its tribal and Brotherhood networks and the defection of General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar gave the protests their backbone. As the lead bloc in the opposition JMP, Islah backed the GCC-brokered transition initiative Saleh signed on 23 November 2011 and took ministries in the subsequent unity government under President Hadi.

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Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah)

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Gara, T. (2026). Islah anchors the 2011 uprising and the GCC transition that ousted Saleh [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/2b9ec327-f634-49bb-96ec-88d3923e9833

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Islah anchors the 2011 uprising and the GCC transition that ousted Saleh." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/2b9ec327-f634-49bb-96ec-88d3923e9833.

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@misc{tayyar-event-2b9ec327-f634-49bb-96ec-88d3923e9833,
  title     = {{Islah anchors the 2011 uprising and the GCC transition that ousted Saleh}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/2b9ec327-f634-49bb-96ec-88d3923e9833},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2011-11-23. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2011-11-23. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.