- Based on unique access and on-the-ground research provides rare insight into South Yemeni society
- The book advances the research on resistance in the MENA
- The book has a global appeal, because it helps to understand why Yemen is at war today
- Compiles new research data from direct sources and gives an exceptional emphasis on grassroots' voices from South Yemen. As the war in Yemen continues and an end of the war is not yet foreseeable, the book might remain the last ethnographic research conducted in the country for the upcoming years.