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...There’s little evidence from Yemen for a linear relationship for which a party as a whole becomes moderate through participation in competitive politics,” Yadav said, explaining why party competition hasn’t brought the country’s politics more to the center...
...addition, she has conducted research on the role of Islamist organizations in the transformation of public spheres in several Middle Eastern countries, including Yemen...
CMES Director Steven C. Caton, who organized the lecture series, said he was excited to have Yadav deliver the lecture, called "Harnessing Apostasy: Excommunicative Discourse and Opposition Politics in Yemen," particularly because political science experts who focus on the Middle East are a rarity at Harvard...
...story, "Visiting Scholar Addresses Islamic Politics in Yemen," contained a number of factual errors. The story referred to the practice of declaring that another has given up faith in Islam as "tut phir" instead of "takfir," misstated the title of the talk, and misquoted the speaker as saying "comparative politics" when she in fact said "competitive politics...
...addition, the story also erroneously stated that the punishment for apostasy may be "excommunication" and suggested that moderates are developing new "sectarian movements" in Yemen. In fact, there is no body to formally excommunicate individuals in Islam, and the moderate movement is an intellectual one within the Islamist Islah party...