Yemen Party leader
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
عبد الملك الحوثيLeader of Ansar Allah (the Houthis) since 2004. Has commanded the movement through three rounds of war with the Saudi-led coalition, the 2014 capture of Sanaa, the 2022–2025 truce-and-resumption cycle, and the November 2023 Red Sea shipping campaign. Rarely seen in public; speaks via televised addresses from undisclosed locations in Saada. The clerical and political authority of a movement that combines both.
- Country
- Yemen
- Party
- Ansar Allah (Houthis)
- Role
- Party leader
Inherited position
Until Abdul-Malik al-Houthi is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.
Other politicians in Ansar Allah (Houthis)
Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Speech Arabic 2025-04-10 Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (supreme leader of Yemen's Ansar Allah / the Houthi movement) — televised address reported by RT Arabic (~10 Apr 2025, amid the Gaza ceasefire collapse): calls for "jihad in the path of God against the Israeli and American enemy" as "the only way" to defend Palestinian rights, charges Israel with "genocide" under "open American support," and rejects surrender, concessions and political settlement.
— الجهاد في سبيل الله ضد العدو الإسرائيلي والأمريكي — العدو الإسرائيلي، وبدعم أمريكي مفتوح، اتجه بشكل عدواني نحو إبادة جماعية ضد الشعب الفلسطيني في القطاع — لا تؤمن بالسلام ولا بالتسوية السياسية — الخيار الجهادي هو…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Abdul-Malik al-Houthi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abdul-malik-al-houthi-ye
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Abdul-Malik al-Houthi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abdul-malik-al-houthi-ye.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-abdul-malik-al-houthi-ye,
title = {{Abdul-Malik al-Houthi}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abdul-malik-al-houthi-ye},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.