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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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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 […]