New Blog: The Sana’a Burea

Waq al-waq has added a new blog to our links. This one is run by Haley Sweetland Edwards and Paul Stephens.I met Haley at an OPC event last year and […]

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Gregory Johnsen

December 21, 2010

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Waq al-waq has added a new blog to our links. This one is run by Haley Sweetland Edwards and Paul Stephens.I met Haley at an OPC event last year and have been impressed by her reporting from Yemen over the past several months, check out their blog: The Sana’a Bureau

Gregory Johnsen

Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton University

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