Mohammed al-Harbi is a Yemeni human rights activist and researcher with a Bachelor’s degree in Law. He specializes in minority issues, focusing on the muhammasheen community in Yemen. He is a member of the Yemen Peace Forum (YPF) and has a long history of working with civil society organizations. He previously served as editor-in-chief of the Voice of the Marginalized Platform, and is the founder of the Voice of the Marginalized Blacks Organization, which is currently under development.
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Forgotten Victims of Yemen’s War: The Plight of the Muhammashat
Members of the community remain among the most vulnerable victims of systemic injustice and suffering in Yemen, a situation made worse by the war. Ostracized and disparaged, the community’s women and girls ( are particularly vulnerable. The nature of their work, which commonly entails begging, street-sweeping, and vending, brings them into public … Read more
The Yemen Brief Podcast | Episode 8 | Minority Communities in Yemen, Part One: Muhammasheen
The Muhammasheen, literally the “marginalized,” is an ascriptive term designating an ethnic hereditary minority of Yemenis associated with certain types of occupations. Its members, numbering some 500,000 to 800,000, are prohibited from bearing arms or owning property, and stigmatized as weak and of foreign descent. The ostracization of the … Read more
Bringing Forth the Voices of Muhammasheen
The Muhammasheen, meaning “the marginalized,” is an ascriptive term designating a group of Yemenis who were traditionally called (literally meaning “the servants”). Membership in this ethnic minority is hereditary, associated with certain types of occupations, and in traditional Yemeni social structures its members are considered ‘weak’ and … Read more