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• in Politics
  Yemeni Women Burn Veils to Support Anti-Regime Protests
  The women had enough of regime oppression; responded to the call of action by burning their traditional veils.
  by adrimarie / on Oct 27, 2011
• in Politics
  Al-Qaeda Second in Command “Dead”
  Al Qaeda’s #2 – Atiyah Abd al-Rahman – has been killed in a drone attack.
  by eklemens / on Aug 27, 2011
• in Politics
  Has the Arab Spring Reached a Stalemate?
  Recent events in Syria and Libya have demonstrated to rebels and to the international community that the protesters' initial dream of freedom is far from happening. Indeed, one can wonder whether any progress has even been made at all.
  by mgregory85 / on Aug 3, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “yemen”

 

• The killing of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

  
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  For a brief introduction to a report on the killing of the 16-year old son of Anwar al-Awlaki , check out this brief Youtube video. Here are the details on the video: Watch the full 50-minute interview with Jeremy Scahill at http://owl.li/klnWN . Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was a 16-year-old boy, born in Colorado, ...
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• Op-Ed Columnist: The Yemeni Way

  
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  The national dialogue taking place in Yemen is a lesson for other Arab nations.        
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• Yemenis Have Moms Too

  
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  Yes We Can End War CODEPINK Banner Drop By Jodie Evans and Charles Davis He disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from  his family for the first time in life. His mother and father, sick with worry, heard nothing. For all they knew he was dead. Then, one day they ...
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• Drone Policy in Yemen

  
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  For anyone in the NYC region, I will be giving a talk at the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEMINAR on KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, and SOCIAL SYSTEMS on Wednesday, May 15, 7 pm (at Columbia University’s Faculty House). The title of the talk is: “Drone Strikes in the War on Terror: The Case of Post-Arab-Spring Yemen.” Unmanned ...
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• The Constitution Project report concludes torture was not more effective than humane interrogation techniques

  
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  Torture of detainees held in U.S. custody after 9/11 did not yield useful information that thwarted terrorist attacks or contributed to the capture of Al Qaeda leader Osama...
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• Close Guantánamo: President Obama, Drop Your Ban on Releasing Yemenis

  
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  I wrote the following article for the “ Close Guantánamo ” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner.  Please join us  — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
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• Online campaign targets homophobia in Arab world

  
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  An online magazine has launched a campaign asking readers in Arab countries to photograph themselves with messages speaking out against homophobia and “media silence” on LGBT issues Aswat magazine launched the ‘Love for All’ campaign through Facebook to coincide with the International Day Against ...
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• Middle East & Arab World in 2013

  
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  The fallacy of the phrase, ‘the Muslim world’ Western media reinforces stereotypes by reducing a complex set of causes to the rage into an amorphous mass. (Al Jazeera) The media should instead pay more attention to individual states, conflicts and leaders, since dictatorship and factionalism have been as ...
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• Photo of the day – the quiet anguish of the Arab Spring

  
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  The World Press Photo jury selected this New York Times photo taken in Yemen last fall as the photo of the year in 2012 for its encapsulation of the anguish that accompanied the Arab Spring uprisings. “A thin man rests … Continue reading →
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• The Socotra Islands

  
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  Utterly remote, this tiny archipelago far out in the Indian Ocean is a haven of biodiversity, home to 700 species of plants and animals that exist nowhere else. Its people are said to be descended from the Queen of Sheba.  Socotra Islands (Yemen). Las fotos no muestran la belleza real de estas islas, las ...
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• The Stream, May 9: Draft EPA Budget to Cut Water Quality Testing

  
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  A proposal in President Barack Obama’s draft 2014 budget would cut the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Beach Grant Program . Critics, NBC4 reported, argue that people will be less informed about unhealthy ocean water if the $US 10 million cut is imposed. Yemeni Crisis In a dispatch from Taiz, Yemen, ...
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• Tom Friedman (not Tom Sawyer) Abroad in Yemen

  
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  Background image is Daniel Beard illustration for the 1899 edition of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Abroad The well traveled journalist Thomas Friedman has popped up in Yemen, but apparently he has yet to find out that no one in Yemen drives a Lexus and Yemenis do not grow olive trees. Friedman has won many awards for ...
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• Yemen signals it may release journalist accused of AQAP ties

  
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  Yemens transitional government is signaling that it mayrelease Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a Yemeni journalist who was arrestedin August 2010 and who U.S. intelligenceofficials believe supported al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Shaye was sentenced to five years in prison in January 2011 ina trial that drew condemnation ...
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• International Museum of Women art exhibit works to dispel Muslim stereotyping

  
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  Faiza Elmasry – WNN GlobalARTS (WNN/VOA) San Francisco, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: The online Muslima exhibition, by the International Museum of Women, highlights the individuality of Muslim women and the rich diversity of their thoughts and contributions. The exhibit’s curator says one of the goals is ...
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• Will Obama keep Yemeni journalist in jail?

  
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  The president of Yemen says journalist Abdul-Elah Haidar Shaye should be released from jail. Will Barack Obama stand between the reporter and freedom? Iona Craig reports Cartoonist Kamal Sharaf shows Shaye locked up while US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein looks on holding the keys. The text says: ...
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• Qat, Cosmopolitanism, and Modernity in Sanaa, Yemen

  
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  Webshaykh’s Note: An article entitled “Qat, Cosmopolitanism, and Modernity in Sana’a, Yemen” has been written by Irene van Oorschot, and published in Arabian Humanities , Vol. 1, 2013. Her ethnographic study focuses on urban women in Sanaa. I attach here the beginning paragraphs, but urge readers to read ...
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• Fancy a Coffee?

  
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  Coffee is a morning ritual for many, a source of comfort for others, and for most an invaluable tool to get us through a long day at the office. However you look at it, the familiar inky beverage has become one of the world’s favourite drinks. It’s a Word for Wednesday that many of us will use on a daily basis (I ...
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• Yemen’s Military Makeover

  
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  A Yemeni soldier stands on the top of a military vehicle at a checkpoint on March 16, 2013, in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a. (AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS) President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s April 10 reforms represent the third, and potentially most significant, stage in Yemeni security sector reform (SSR). They also ...
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• Yemen: Open Letter to Obama

  
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  Yemeni blogger Noon Arabia writes an open letter to US President Barak Obama in which she says: All Yemenis are against terrorism and condemn Al-Qaeda, yet are also against the violent and unethical use of predator drones in combating them. We are against the death of civilians, whom you refer to as collateral ...
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• Spotlight: U.S. Drones & Targeted Killing

  
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  Transcripts: WhatTheFolly.com: Transcript: Sen. Dick Durbin’s remarks on drones & targeted killing – Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on April 23, 2013 WhatTheFolly.com: Transcript: Sen. Ted Cruz’s remarks on drones & targeted...
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