November 2, 2012

Southern Yemen

Today Abigail Fielding-Smith published what I think is a fantastic piece of journalism on southern Yemen and Aden. I encourage all of you to read her fine piece.

Indeed, as Yemen becomes more fractured and fragmented I think this is exactly the type of journalism that we need to see more of: in-depth pieces on a particular region. I don’t think broad overview pieces of Yemen as a whole do any of us any good anymore. Yemen is too divided for that. No longer is it accurate to talk about Yemen; now we need to start talking about the different Yemens.

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