Yemen: I was Targeted For Assassination And Had To Flee The Country I Love
I had to evacuate from Yemen in March 2014. I was targeted for assassination by a group most likely affiliated to al Qaeda. The assailants scaled the wall of a neighbors house. The guards there...
View ArticleArab Film Festival: Impressions From The Audience BY Sharon E. Roberts
SAN FRANCISCO Oct. 12, 2014 Some Thoughts about Mikael´s Film. I really didn’t have any ideas about Yemen before I saw the film. It is impressive to see all the meticulous planning and research that...
View ArticleThe Yemen Crisis Keeps Me Sleepless
It was one of the scariest moments in my life. I was playing with my than 1 year old daughter Eva at a play park just off YCMES when hell broke loose. The loud sound was just terrifying and I was...
View ArticleYemen Unedited: A Civilian Voice From The War
Dear my best friend Mikael, Yemen need hope not war. Yemen is a poor county and Saudi is destroying our county. Saudi is spending a lot of money to realize this war and destroy Yemen. They should,...
View ArticleYemen: An involuntary adventurer By Tanya Holm
One of the first issues which irritated me as regards to what I was reading about the war in Yemen, was the reporting from the foreign press and journalists located in Sanaa. Only drama, only misery...
View ArticleYemen; Fauna On The Brink Of Extinction By Tarim C. Kennedy
Once in awhile you come across some extra ordinary young people. Like Tarim. He is like a copy in many ways to my Siberian partner, Johan Ivarsson, by which I mean somebody who is pretty much a top...
View ArticleYemen: Watch the Price Of Bread, Watch It Closely By Kyle Anthony Foster
Shots rang out in the night, three short bursts, -pop-pop-pop- and then silence. I sat up in bed and edged myself toward the window, just peeking around the corner of the window so as not to expose...
View ArticleEyes That Speak: Lifting The Veil Of Yemen
Eyes That Speak: Lifting the Veil of Yemen By Tricia Nellessen Lifting the veil of Yemen…. The day after Christmas 2009, I was surprised to find dozens of messages on my phone. How nice, I thought....
View ArticleYemen Film shown and discussed in Berlin
Mikael, It was great. The room was full, we even had to bring more seats and fill the room, and even after that some people was sitting on the floor and behind The discussion after the movie was also...
View ArticleA Letter From Yemen
My dear friend, How are you? We hope that you and your family are in good health. How is life going ? we hope that you are doing fine. I think the recent news of the Saudi war against Yemen which...
View ArticleStackars Jemen
Den senaste tiden har jag fått en hel del förfrågningar från media, vad jag har för åsikter om oroligheterna i Jemen. Flertalet, i synnerhet de amerikanska, har redan en ganska klar åsikt vad de vill...
View ArticleYemen: My Friends In War
This morning was the same as any. The family woke up by the alarm and as usual it took us almost an hour to do breakfast, get the girls ready and wake up. Then we set off to school through a quite...
View ArticleJemen Filmen På SVT Play
Äntligen så kan alla se Jemen filmen! Den finns nu på SVT Play, http://www.svtplay.se/video/1424799/expedition-jemen-52-grader-i-skuggan Den eneglska varianten finns på https://vimeo.com/89691088...
View Article2011: Malmö and Yemen
Malmö 2011. Through the great network of friends, we managed to find a flat near the center. 4 rooms. It felt like a mosque inside. Two rooms were free of furniture. The rent double to what we were...
View ArticleReaktioner på Jemen Dokumentären “Expedition Jemen – 52 grader i skuggan”
Hej Mikael, Vilken promenad genom öknen, Jeesus! Eller Allaah! kanske man hellre ska säga. Vilken fantastisk tjej du lyckades hitta, som klarade detta utan mer gnissel. Helt otroligt. Hur fasan hade...
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