Tom Finn in Yemen
The revolution ate my homework - Five Yemeni bloggers you should be following
Much of the West’s knowledge of what’s happening in Yemen at the moment is coming from a handful (I can count them on one hand) of foreign journalists based in the capital Sana’a. As brilliant as those guys are they’re...
Where does Yemen sit in the Middle East domino theory?
With the winds of change blowing across the Middle East, people are busy combing the region for their next favorite to fall. After the resignation of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt nearly two weeks ago, most of the world’s attention has...
WikiLeaks causing a stir in Yemen
Yemen’s deputy prime minister, Rashad al-Alimi, is in trouble. A recent WikiLeaks cable documents a meeting with him and President Saleh in which he jokes about having just “lied” to the parliament, telling them that Yemeni (not American) forces had...
Islam's Billy Graham arrives in Yemen
Yemen have enlisted the help of Amr Khaled, a popular Egyptian TV preacher to help in its fight against Al-Qaeda. Khaled, known as the Arab world’s Billy Graham, will be teaming up with well-known clerics and youth leaders to launch...
Parcel Force
So once again everyone's talking about Yemen. The discovery, just under two weeks ago, of multiple parcel bombs, originating in Yemen and destined for synagogues in the US sent shock waves across the globe. But aside from a few...
Why Britain?
At around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, two men dressed as street cleaners, fired a rocket propelled grenade hidden in a rubbish bag at a convoy carrying the British deputy ambassador in Yemen. After firing at the convoy, both assailants fled...
Yemen: repression veiled by law
President Saleh's regime has long been renowned for extrajudicial abductions, threatening and intimidating journalists and crudely censoring the Yemeni press. Al-Ayyam, an independent daily newspaper based in the southern city of Aden, was once Yemen's most highly circulated publication reaching...
Tom Finn in Yemen:
Tom Finn is a journalist currently based in Sana’a, Yemen.Tom was born in London and and graduated with a degree...