A Living-Room Crusade via Blogging - New York Times

A Living-Room Crusade via Blogging - New York Times

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Jane Novak, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mother of two in New Jersey, has never been to Yemen. She speaks no Arabic, and freely admits that until a few years ago, she knew nothing about that strife-torn south Arabian country.

And yet Ms. Novak has become so well known in Yemen that newspaper editors say they sell more copies if her photograph — blond and smiling — is on the cover. Her blog, an outspoken news bulletin on Yemeni affairs, is banned there. The government’s allies routinely vilify her in print as an American agent, a Shiite monarchist, a member of Al Qaeda, or “the Zionist Novak.”

Such a great article about my friend Jane, who is, I believe. one of my few blog-children.

Congrats, Jane.

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Comments

  1. Alon Levy wrote:

    I really like the “Some Arabists…” part of the article, which doesn’t quote a single person saying that outside the Yemeni government.