Experts
Gregory Johnsen
Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton University
| Is Yemen Our Next Battleground? | 5:46 | Discuss |
| Why Al-Qaeda Is Thriving in Yemen | 5:51 | Discuss |
| Yemen Politics: "Like Dancing on the Heads of Snakes” | 7:26 | Discuss |
| Full Interview | 18:37 | Discuss |
Recent Activity
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Today the Friends of Yemen met in Riyadh. One of the key issues, as it often is at these meetings, is that of foreign aid. Several days ago a group of Yemeni students gathered to debate exactly the topic of Foreign Aid and whether it is causing more harm than good. The organizer of that ... Read More
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In the spring of 2000, when I first started studying Yemen as an undergraduate during a semester abroad at the American University of Cairo, I found myself seduced by Yemen's deep history and rich theology. Later, when I was finally able to spend a significant amount of time in the country as a ... Read More
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As the details of the undercover operation to infiltrate AQAP continue to be made public the picture of what happened is starting clear. As I wrote yesterday, it appears that the individual did indeed have a western passport - from the UK - and was initially recruited by British intelligence ... Read More
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Despite all the leaks that have come out over the latest underwear bomb plot there is still a great deal we don't know. For instance, did information from the undercover asset lead to the strike on Qusa? Sometimes even the same journalist doesn't know whether it did or did not lead to Qusa's ... Read More
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For more than three years AQAP and Muhammad bin Nayif have been involved in a high-stakes intelligence duel, which has largely been fought in the shadows of Yemen's tribal territories. Shortly after AQAP formed in January 2009 one of the group's top leaders, Muhammad al-Awfi a former Guantanamo ... Read More
About Gregory Johnsen
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.