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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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The Drone/UAV issue that we wrote about here now appears to be solved or at least partially so.Trey very helpfully posted a video of UAVs being launched in and around […]
As I’m sure everyone who reads or follows (yes, you too can follow Waq al-waq) this blog is aware a new issue of Inspire magazine is out. I haven’t commented […]
As everyone’s attention is rightly focused on the north and the Huthi conflict, the south is still hanging around. In Abyan clashes between an Islamist militia (not al-Qaeda) and security […]
I have been a bit hard on some of the NY Times’ reporting coming out of Yemen lately, but I like to think that it is a loving criticism. Still, […]
News Yemen, and a number of other outlets, are reporting that the Ministry of Information has a new guide book for the country’s most wanted. Al-Ghad attempts to fit all […]
While the attention of most continues to be occupied by the south (unintentional, I swear) the fighting over the past couple of days has picked up in the north. One […]
I returned home from vacation to find that apparently both Brian and the readership of this blog also decided to take a few days off. The news, however, did not. […]