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 […]

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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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