As Egyptians have once again returned to the streets to demand the resignation of elected President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yemen revolutionaries are pausing to evaluate their own position.
Just as Egypt gave momentum to the Arab Spring back in 2011, political analysts are eyeing Yemen with cautious, trying to sense whether Cairo's revolutionary inferno will re-ignite Yemen's tinderbox.
The stakes are running ever higher for the impoverished nation now that the National Conference Dialogue is drawing to an end and that a date has been set on the country's new constitution referendum, October.
In a matter of four months Yemen is set to vote on a new constitution, one which NDC representatives will have prepared in line with their findings and political negotiations; resetting the country's political clock back to zero hour.Just as Yemen seems to be coming out of its transition period, somewhat in one piece, the seeds of dissent and miscontent are once again blowing strong in the wind.
United in poverty, unrest and political disillusionment, Yemenis and Egyptians have more in common than anyone care to realize. Brothers in their discontent and unrealized political and social ambitions, Egypt decided to return to its squares while Yemen is mulling over its anger, torn in between seeing through a transition of power it once acclaimed as a revolutionary victory and the desire to return the power back into the people's hands as Yemen politicians stand paralyzed.
With only four months to go before the referendum, NDC representatives have failed so far to agree on key issues, such as transitional justice, the southern issue and the Sa'ada dossier. The three elephants in the room, Yemen stands no change of moving on if those issues are left unresolved, caught in a political deadlock.