DEARBORN — About 500 Yemeni Americans came out on Friday, October 7 to the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center lawn to show their solidarity for the popular revolution in Yemen and hold a traditional Friday prayer service. 

The event, which was created by the Popular Support Committee for Yemen in the city, also coincided with the announcement that Tawakul Karman, a Yemeni woman who led helped lead the revolution, had won the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Sheikh Abdul Razak ElSayed told those gathered that he was proud of a Yemeni Muslim woman leading the revolution and said her success in sparking the revolution at Sana’a University is a great example of the Muslim world to everyone. 

Many Yemeni Americans have continued to closely follow the events in their home country and have family members there. Those in attendance have rallied against the 34-year regime of recently-returned President Ali Abdullah Saleh in support of those in Yemen over the past nine months.