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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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Yemen’s Foreign Minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi: “I think there are a lot of experts on Yemen who write a lot of articles about Yemen, and analyses, and they have never […]
The war in Sa’dah continues to escalate, and although I don’t have time for a full or comprehensive post on the war today one is in the works. In the […]
I’ve been away from the internet for most of the weekend, but I returned today to find that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has posted a statement taking responsibility for […]
News Yemen, which is run by Nabil al-Sufi, has an absolutely fascinating article today on a tribal meeting that was convened by the Arhab tribe in an attempt to decide […]
The new video AQAP posted on the Battle of Marib today – September 8 – is by far the most technologically impressive piece of propaganda I have seen it produce […]
It has been so long since I blogged that I couldn’t even remember my username or password. I’m not sure what that means, but it must mean something.Anyway, I’m breaking […]
Western papers are leading with the news that Yemeni forces have killed two al-Qaeda suspects. Not so fast, says Mareb Press, which actually names the two individuals killed – Nur […]