New America Foundation Event

The New America Foundation is about to have a discussion on Yemen, which can be streamed live here. Barak Barfi will be presenting his paper, it seems, and then there […]

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Brian O'Neill

December 21, 2010

The New America Foundation is about to have a discussion on Yemen, which can be streamed live here. Barak Barfi will be presenting his paper, it seems, and then there will be a panel discussion on it. On that panel is friend of Waq al-Waq, Chris Boucek from the Carnegie Endowment. I probably won’t be able to live-blog this, but will try to read the paper and listen in and maybe I can do a wrap.

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