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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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Here at Waq al-waq I like to point out how important it is to know Arabic, partly because I have spent so long studying the language but also because if […]
Last week, following a Mareb Press story, I wrote a bit about the possibility of US drones patrolling the skies over Marib looking for AQAP membersThe story, it seems, has […]
Yemen’s Special Terrorism Court, not to be confused with its Special Court for the Media, announced today that it had sentenced six al-Qaeda suspects to death and the remaining 10 […]
I have often wondered what I would say if I could say something without my name being attached to my comments, I’m still not sure. But I would certainly request […]
In what can only be described as an “oh no, not this too,” moment, a car bomb exploded in the middle of a procession of al-Huthi followers celebrating the controversial […]
My schedule hasn’t really allowed me the time to blog, but I have been thinking about AQAP’s statement on the suicide attacks in north Yemen last week. The statement – […]
I know we have a number of readers in Yemen, which ranks just behind the UK and the US in readership, and soundly trounces Norway in fourth place, and so […]