How a Lost Mountain Kingdom Became the Houthis | Part 1 of 4

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Who are the Houthis — really? Before the Red Sea, before the missiles, there was a thousand-year Zaydi kingdom in the mountains of Yemen. In the year 897 a scholar founded it; in 1962 it fell. And out of that fall — and a flood of Saudi money into the marginalized north — rose a preacher named Hussein al-Houthi, a hard new creed, and a movement that took his name after the state killed him in 2004. Part 1 of 4. Told without taking a side — you decide. ▶ Follow for Part 2 — Down from the Mountains. Some scenes are cinematic reconstructions of documented events. All quotes, dates, and sources are historically verified.