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Effective implementation of health & human rights strategies depends on demonstrating that universal human rights can advance the interests of local communities. The relationship between universal rights & local interests can be especially fraught in the Muslim world. This article responds to Islamist opposition to human rights by referring to alternative constructs of Islam that affirm its compatibility with human rights &, more generally, responds to assertions that rights are a specifically Western political, legal, or economic construct. The argument that health, human rights, & Islam can be mutually complementary is substantiated by reference to Yemeni experiments in health & human rights. These examples illustrate the utility of human rights in addressing public health issues & how Islam can assist rather than contradict this project. Adapted from the source document.

Effective implementation of health and human rights strategies depends on demonstrating that universal human rights can advance the interests of local communities. The relationship between universal rights and local interests can be especially fraught in the Muslim world. This article responds to Islamist opposition to human rights by referring to alternative constructs of Islam that affirm its compatibility with human rights and, more generally, responds to assertions that rights are a specifically Western political, legal, or economic construct. The argument that health, human rights, and Islam can be mutually complementary is substantiated by reference to Yemeni experiments in health and human rights. These examples illustrate the utility of human rights in addressing public health issues and how Islam can assist rather than contradict this project. (Original abstract)

As documented in many parts of the world, football clubs are important symbols of resistance, integration and identity. This article traces the multiple roles of sport rituals in North Yemen and South Yemen. In each nation, football has been a symbol of resistance to colonial or imāmate power and of regional integration into and identification with nationalist and state agencies. Before their union in 1990, football matches between the two Yemens were symbolic expressions of the success of the nations' opposing ideologies. The union of the two nations was marked by widespread public support but few obvious indications of unity or identity. Since unification, football rituals have been used to promote a new national identity. The first national football championship and the selection of a national team were instances where union was obvious. While a new national identity may be emerging, there are renewed signs of football as a symbol of resistance.