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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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It is another rainy Saturday and Nebraska has yet to kick-off, so I suppose we have time to at least temporarily resurrect our morning papers section of the blog.By all […]
A little over seven years ago, an unmanned US drone killed the head of al-Qaeda in Yemen, Abu ‘Ali al-Harithi, and with his death it effectively destroyed al-Qaeda in the […]
I’ve said this before, but sometimes things bear repeating. Plus, I don’t always have new ideas. But I think an incident from today in Shabwa illustrates the difficulties of assigning […]
Some in Yemen are worried about the potential influence of Saudi Arabia and the kingdom’s religious thought on Yemen, following a meeting Sunday in San’a between Islamists from both countries. […]
The future does not look bright.
The Yemeni government’s official daily, al-Thawra, is reporting that the five people were killed in yesterday’s ambush. (Sorry it is a PDF so no link – but it is on […]
Both Marib Press and News Yemen as well as a number of wire reports are reporting that Yemen has arrested Muhammad Ahmad al-Haniq, the individual from Arhab it has been […]