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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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There is a new AQAP audio tape, with an accompanying transcript, that has been posted to jihadi forums. I’m downloading it at the moment. This tape was teased in the […]
Oh, and for those that missed it, everyone’s favorite shaykh, ‘Abd al-Majid al-Zindani gave a wide-ranging interview to al-Wasat, which was republished by Mareb Press. Good news by the way, […]
I was listening to this discussion on WorldFocus between Christopher Boucek and Sudarsan Raghavan and one thing that the latter said stood out to me, and that is that he […]
The outside pressure so many were hesitant to put on the Yemeni government finally seems to have taken a toll. The government announced last night a conditional ceasefire. (The official […]
Most of you should remember Muhammad al-‘Awfi’s – the former Guantanamo detainee and one time military commander of AQAP – confessions back in March of this year when he alleged […]
I have little confidence in Mareb Press‘ sourcing for reports of the arrest of ‘Abd al-Malik al-Huthi. There seems to be much smoke and little fire.
Today’s big news from Yemen, as usual, happened in Arabic. Ḥasan Muḥammad Manā’, who is quickly becoming my favorite governor to read, has an interview in today’s al-Sharq al-Awsat. How […]