Ibrahim Bin Ali Al Wazeer

Ibrahim bin Ali Al-Wazeer (born in 1932 in Taiz, died on 28 June 2014 in London), is a Yemeni politician and Islamic thinker who founded in the sixties the Union of Popular Forces, which took a middle position between the royalists and the republicans, and has several books on Islamic thought and the Yemeni issue.

He returned to Yemen after the Republic of 1962 and was known as "the third force", which took a mobility in the war between the Republicans and supporters of the imam, and then later founded the "Federal Powers" party and took his leadership and founded the newspaper "Shura" He moved in early 1970s to Saudi Arabia, and later migrated to Washington and settled.

He was born in 1932 in Taiz and grew up there, and moved at the age of fifteen to study at the Scientific School in Sana'a.  He interrupted his studies in 1948 following the failure of the Constitutional Revolution and the execution of his father and uncle Abdullah al-Wazir, who were among its leaders. He was imprisoned in the Cairo Citadel in the city of Hajjah, where he studied with a number of imprisoned religious scholars.  After his release, in 1954, he managed to escape from Yemen on a ship that took him and other Yemeni opponents to Port Sudan, and from there he went to Egypt and studied at its universities and obtained a higher diploma in literature and language, and also obtained a diploma in a social worker in  UNESCO. During his stay in Egypt, he was acquainted with Islamic thinkers such as Sayyid Qutb, Malik bin Nabi, and Jamal Al-Banna, and was influenced by them later in his writings.