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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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Khalid al-Hammadi has an excellent report on the surprise visit of Khalid Mishal of Hamas to San’a, where he offered to serve as a mediator between Yemen and Iran. Very […]
Here is a link to a piece I wrote for Common Ground News Service on the fighting in Sa’dah.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat is reporting that the Huthis and Yemeni security forces are clashing in the north. The fighting, which is being described as heavy, comes as Yemen has arrested more […]
I was going to leave this alone, as I am worried about turning Waq al-waq into a place that only critiques the media and has nothing positive to offer, but […]
For those that missed the streaming video of the morning session of the fascinating conference on al-Qaeda hosted by the New American Foundation and the NYU Center on Law and […]
People have been saying for a number of years that Yemen could easily become the next Somalia. I’m not sure that the country will actually go that way; I think […]
While we were away on various trips and excursions over the weekend a great deal happened in Yemen, some of which we will try to highlight below.The security director in […]
The other day I got an e-mail from someone (I assure you this was a real person) who said he enjoyed links to articles and radio and tv spots, so […]
Robert Haddick of Small Wars Journal recently argued in his weekly column for Foreign Policy that Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the Huthi conflict was good news for the US. The […]
I’m still trying to figure out al-Hayat’s newly reconfigured website and find where al-Ghad went to on the super-web, but in the meantime al-Sharq al-Awsat does us all a favor […]
I have been at a conference all day and haven’t had much time to enjoy the weather. But I did have time to read this interview with President Salih. My […]
As promised, I have included Abdulahi’s blog on Waq al-waq’s blogs we read. Sorry for the delay, but I spent a good part of yesterday avoiding work and watching my […]
For those with any interest, I will be on al-Jazeera English this evening – sometime around 8 pm EST – discussing US-Yemeni relations.Update: It turns out I had the time […]
I woke up this morning to a program about Sudanese musicians on al-Jazeera with a breaking news banner saying there had been an explosion near the British Embassy in San’a. […]
For those of you with a subscription to Jane’s Intelligence Digest, be sure to check out Brian’s analysis of the election delays in Yemen. For those of you without a […]
If only al-Shabab read Waq al-waq they would have realized that it would be a huge mistake to mess with qat. The 26th of September, an authoritative source on security […]
One of the dangers of having access to a blog is the temptation to post instant analysis on anything and everything that happens, which can be quite dangerous and often […]
The forums are just starting to discuss the potential agreement to send Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo to Saudi, and while there isn’t much to report – besides one very humorous […]
Well this is probably more of an insight into my social life than most would like, but the new issue of Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battles not the Glorious […]
Bill Roggio of Long War Journal, whose reporting on Yemen I am beginning to question more and more, is following the Yemen Observer in reporting that the deputy commander of […]