It is nice to see the readership of Waq al-waq so on the ball as I've temporarily stepped away from the wheel - no need to worry Brian is an […]

Waq al-waq has added a new blog to our links. This one is run by Haley Sweetland Edwards and Paul Stephens.I met Haley at an OPC event last year and […]

One of the things I most enjoy about blogging and about Waq al-waq in particular is the questions and discussions that often build off of posts. I have seen the […]

Below are books I recommend on Yemen, divided into four categories based on nothing other than my own biases.General/Accessible:Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith(US Title: Yemen: The Unknown Arabia)My […]

As promised Waqal-waq is bringing you yet another discussion of an article from Sada al-Malahim. Today's installment is: "The Apostates: Stages of Confrontation." The term used in the title, al-rafida […]

Below we discussed some of the security implications for the rising price of food in Yemen. Here, briefly (I hope) are a few things that show just how bad the […]

To me, the most worrisome sign is the rapidity of turnaround time. I really doubt that the plan was "attack a group of tourists, and then when the delegation comes […]

I caught a bit of the video of the protests in al-Dhala' this morning on al-Jazeera streaming video. Al-Tagheer is reporting that at least seven people were injured. Meanwhile the […]

I don't have time for much more than a quick up-date on the war in Sa'dah - I return home on Friday and hope to have more time to write […]

News Yemen helps to explain the strategic importance of Jabal Dukhan and gives a bit more information, which is helpful since the mountain is not in my mu'ajim al-buldan.

I have some unexpected free time this morning, so I thought it would be nice to return to the short-lived morning papers segment of Waq al-waq.US Secretary of Defense Robert […]

According to multiple stories Yemen arrested the Saudi national Hassan Husayn bin 'Alwan on Friday in Marib. All of these stories are claiming that 'Alwan is a "major financier" for […]

Thanks to all the readers who have been commenting as of late, it is nice to know that Waq al-waq isn't (solely) an echo chamber. Yemen features prominently, if invisibly, […]

Waq al-waq has a very narrow, if self-delineated, portfolio: Yemen. But sometimes Yemen has some strange links, as some of the Google searches that bring people to Waq al-waq indicate. […]

The US and UK aren't the only embassies shutting their doors in San'a - the French, Germans, Japanese and Spain have also closed.

Sometimes the news just seems a little off. A few days ago I was watching al-Arabiyya and caught the tail end of brief about a former Guantanamo detainee, Jabir Jabran […]

We seem to have fallen into a pattern here: Greg provides the judicious review of breaking events, and I am the bearded wierdo on the corner yelling "Doom! Doom!". If […]

For those of you, who like me, missed Hamid al-Ahmar on al-Jazeera yesterday, you are definitely going to want to find a transcript of the program, as al-Ahmar calls on […]

As I have skimmed through the Wikileaks documents coming out of San'a and Riyadh I have been asking myself a number of different questions here are three (I promise some […]

Saba and 26September are reporting that four soldiers have been killed in an ambush in Abyan. Tracking this as to culpability, but it seems that violence has been ratcheting up, […]