Selected published work
US cluster bombs in Yemen: The right weapon in Al Qaeda fight?
June 7, 2010
An Amnesty International report released today has found that US weapons were involved in a December attack on suspected Al Qaeda members in Yemen.
The findings, which confirm what many analysts have long suspected, could quiet American fears that the US hasn’t been active enough in cracking down on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest airliner. But the assertion of US involvement also could give Yemen-based militants a powerful new recruiting tool. (MORE)
Al Qaeda haven? Yemen fights concerns with strikes, 10-point plan.
December 17, 2009
At heart of Yemen’s conflicts: Water crisis
November 5, 2009
Why Yemen could become Al Qaeda haven
July 31, 2009
Yemen’s fishermen caught between Somali pirates and pirate hunters
June 17, 2009
Yemen aims to halt next generation of terrorists
June 14, 2009
How should we deal with Yemen?
January 4, 2010
In a country that most Americans couldn’t name on which continent it is located prior to two weeks ago, Senator Joseph Lieberman’s declaration on Fox News Sunday about the impoverished south Arabian nation Yemen last week was stark: “Iraq was yesterday’s war. Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war.” (MORE)
Poking fun, U.S. style, in Egypt
March 29, 2010
CAIRO, Egypt — In Egypt, where the government keeps a close eye on the media and most other forms of expression — an alternative has emerged: fake news.
Similar in style to Western satirical newspapers and websites, such as the The Onion, the English-language website El Koshary Today (EKT), puts an ironic twist on Egyptian current events and makes light of more serious societal ills plaguing Egyptian society. The increasingly huge gap between Egypt’s upper and lower classes, discrimination felt by Egypt’s minority Coptic Christian community, and even Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s health are all fodder for stories with a humorous bent. (MORE)
Iraqis who worked for army denied U.S. entry
July 27, 2008
Cairo, Egypt – Kareem Ali Hussein was stunned when he read the Department of Homeland Security letter that branded him ineligible for refugee status in the United States: “It has been determined that you ordered, incited, assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of others,” the letter stated.
Hussein, who had worked as a translator for the U.S. army in Iraq for 2 1/2 years, fled to Egypt with his wife and seven children in 2005 after their 13-year-old son was held hostage for 11 days because of his father’s ties to the United States. A militant Shiite group released him after Hussein paid a ransom of $14,000. (MORE)
YEMEN: Tough challenges for aid workers in Saada
SANAA, 25 August 2009 – Aid organizations are finding it increasingly difficult to help civilians in the northern Yemeni governorate of Saada after renewed clashes there between the army and the al-Houthi Shia rebels. (MORE)