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Gregory Johnsen
Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton University
Gregory Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Johnsen has written for a variety of publications on Yemen including, among others, Foreign Policy, The American Interest, The Independent, The Boston Globe, and The National. He is the co-founder of Waq al-Waq: Islam and Insurgency in Yemen Blog. In 2009, he was a member of the USAID's conflict assessment team for Yemen.
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Yemen is saying that it is open season on al-Qaeda in the country, claiming that it will fight them wherever it finds them and warning Yemenis against helping them or […]
Waq al-waq should have much more this afternoon on the executions of the 9 hostages (the Yemeni Embassy in the US is only confirming three dead) in the North. At […]
Sorry for the delay in postings, but I have been busy with radio interviews this morning – if I can find a link I’ll post it later.But the real news, […]
Comments like this drive me crazy: “So it is a Saudi-Iranian proxy war,” he said. (The he being: Simon Henderson, director of Gulf and energy policy at the Washington Institute […]
Or so says Shaykh ‘Abd al-Muhsin al-‘Abaykan of Saudi Arabia.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a deal to send the Yemeni detainees to Saudi Arabia is in the making. This comes out just as I argue in “How […]
Mareb Press is reporting that there was an RPG attack on a military check point in Shabwa this morning. The article suggests that the attack came in Ratiq days after […]
Throughout the summer AQAP has put out a number of statements, detailing its operations. Often times I would discuss these with a Yemeni friend, the only other one I know […]
My new piece in Foreign Policy is now on-line here.
One of the questions I am often asked is what if any links al-Qaeda as it is headquartered in Yemen has with al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia. Certainly, Sada al-Malahim has […]
I came close to making it through the weekend without blogging, but the new statement from AQAP forced my hand.The statement denies that anyone was killed in the strike on […]
If anyone has some free time and can make it this sounds like an interesting, if predictable, lecture.
President Salih is out of the country today, but while he is gone the JMP is publicly questioning his speech from Saturday, suggesting that there are more secessionists in San’a […]
Back in October news reports surfaced that Fahd al-Quso had been killed in Pakistan. I had my doubts then and said so here and here. Today, we have photographic evidence […]
Three new articles on Yemen (in English) that you should read.1. Bernard Haykel in the National2. Fawaz Gerges for CNN3. Michael Knights for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Three people whose work I respect: Brian, Aaron and Clint have all come down – with some variations – on the side of using drones in Yemen to target and […]
Despite my nerd-like fantasies – Washington Journal is my favorite show – C-Span didn’t show up to cover the event at Carnegie on Tuesday, but al-Hurra did and their correspondent […]
Two deaths today during a funeral procession in Lahj for demonstrators that were killed last week. Al-Sahawa has the names of the deceased and some rather gruesome pictures. The bad […]
Instead of reading Salih’s interview with al-Hayat and the denial that was e-mailed to me early this morning by Yahya al-Huthi, I have spent the day (well not the whole […]
Waq al-waq has had well over 3,000 visitors today, which is far above our daily average. For those new to blog and looking for information on Yemen and al-Qaeda in […]