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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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Last Thursday I recorded a bloggingheads session on Yemen with Afrah Nasser. In the 43-minute video we talked about the current stalemate in Sanaa and what, if anything, can be […]
Was the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki legal? Was it wise and did it make Americans safer?
For those who want more al-Awlaki, although I don’t see how you possibly could. Here is a radio spot I did for the Takeaway this morning. And a video from […]
The al-Awlaki stories continue to fly off the presses at an astounding rate. (But more on that later). One of the things I neglected to mention in my earlier post […]
Early this morning the Yemeni government released the following statement: The government of the Republic of Yemen announced today the death of Anwar Al-Awlaki, the American born terrorist and member […]
For the past several months I have strongly criticized US policy in Yemen, arguing that the US is missing a key opportunity to be a force for positive change in […]
If you read one article on Yemen today, it should be this one by Charles Schmitz up at Foreign Policy. In concise prose, Schmitz walks us through the summer and […]