Ahmed A. Saif has a Ph.D. (2000) in politics from the University of Exeter, UK. He taught at Exeter, AUS, and Sanaá universities. Currently, he is the director of Sheba Centre for Strategic Studies. He has authored several publications and among the most recent of them are: “Yemen: Politics and Society,” “Misperception and Mistrust Relationships: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE vis-a-vis Iran”; “Citizenship Prospects in Post-Revolutionary Traditional & Multi-Fragmented Yemen”; “Void vs. Presence: The In-between-ness of State & Society in Yemen”; “Deconstructing before Building: Perspectives on Democracy in Qatar”; “Rethinking the Arab Spring: Potential Scenarios” and “Paradox of Regional and International Intervention in the Democratic Transformation Countries.”