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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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Well it has been a busy few days for Yemen and while we have been following the developments, I have refrained from blogging in order to spend time with the […]
The news is starting to come from various parts of the south about yesterday’s protests, which by most accounts were relatively low-key.Al-Tagheer has a story about 25 people arrested in […]
Just because I am busy this week doesn’t mean I don’t have time for the really important things in life like catching a few minutes of the Liverpool v. Chelsea […]
Both this report and this one cite the SITE institute as claiming they have a statement that was posted to the Internet by AQAP claiming responsibility for the attack on […]
For those looking for something to read this weekend, I would recommend this piece by Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star (and not just because she says some nice things […]
As I mentioned earlier today, AQAP has a statement out on the flooding in Jiddah. This is similar to what the group did last year – in Sada al-Malahim – […]
Despite appearances to the contrary – here at Waq al-waq we don’t actually enjoy playing gotcha, well, ok – sometimes we do. But not all the time. Case in point, […]