Weekend Reading: Waiting on Mosul, Talking With Ghassan Kanafani, and Oman’s Houthi Policy
![Pro-government soldiers march during a military parade celebrating the 54th anniversary of North Yemen's revolution in the central province of Marib (Ali Owidha/Reuters).](http://cdn.cfr.org/sites/default/files/styles/slide_3_2/public/image/2016/10/WR10142016.webp)
Mustafa Habib provides a breakdown of the various groups and armed forces operating in Iraq’s Nineveh governorate, where the city of Mosul, controlled by the self-styled Islamic State, is located.
Marcia Lynx Qualey shares rare video footage of a 1970 interview with Ghassan Kanafani, a Palestinian writer and novelist killed in 1972.
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Ashraf al-Falahi finds that Oman has provided support to Houthi armed fighters in the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
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