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Jane Novak's blog about Yemen

Nasser al Weddady, effective cyber activist for civil rights globally

Filed under: mentions — by Jane Novak at 9:32 am on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Niiiiice, long time friend of this website, Yemen and me personally, Naser al Weddady gets a nice write up in the Atlantic recognizing his work and his amazing contribution to supporting freedom and civil rights in some of the darkest corners of earth, the Middle East. Naser helped me a lot with strategy, advice and moral support for both of the campaigns for al Khaiwani (2005, 2008) and his door is always open when I’m confused (or furious). A very smart guy, Nasser is dedicated to changing the world and is actually doing it. Read it all at the Atlantic.

Thats funny, so I thought maybe I should stop gushing about Naser for a minute and read the entire article (I got the link off twitter) before I posted it and there I was too:

Testifying to the global reach of the cyber activists, Jane Novak, a New Jersey housewife, has established herself as a highly-regarded source on all things Yemen, even, at one point, consulting with the U.S. State Department. Her Twitter feed and blog, armiesofliberation.com, are consulted by activists and journalists. She is well-known among policy makers, activists and reporters in the country’s besieged capital, Sana’a. And she has never been to Yemen.

“She doesn’t speak a word of Arabic, she hasn’t set foot in the Middle East, but she still became an authority,” Weddady says. He claims her influence helped secure the 2008 release of Yemeni journalist Abdulkarim al-Khawaini, who had been convicted of defaming President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

To clarify, I gave a 2008 presentation at the Carnegie Institute, at the invitation of State, on media repression in Yemen. I said many of the attacks on press freedom are retribution for journalists who exposed mass corruption at the highest levels of the US allied Saleh regime.

Its funny that Naser describes the fact that I don’t speak Arabic or visit Yemen in a positive light, when the na-na-nana-na crowd always tries to use it to depreciate my work and me personally. My ten thousand Yemeni friends don’t hold it against me though.

the impact of bin Laden’s death

Filed under: Yemen, mentions — by Jane Novak at 8:59 pm on Sunday, May 15, 2011

I’m not in Yemen but as far as I can tell the rest of it is correct

Assafikr

أي أثر لمقتل بن لادن على الثورة اليمنية ونظام صالح؟

دنيز يمين
بعد استيعاب العالم صدمة تفجيرات واشنطن ونيويورك في 11 أيلول 2001، كان السؤال المصيري الأكثر إثارة للقلق «إلى أين يتجه العرب والغرب بعد الزلزال المدوّي الذي ترك بصماته عند كل مفصل في حياة العرب والمسلمين وغيّر معالم السياسة العالمية كلها؟». لم تتأخر الإجابة في الظهور بعدما فتح مخطط «الحرب على الإرهاب» الباب أمام الحكومات الغربية ـ الراعية لهذا المشروع والمشاركة فيه ـ لوضع كل القوى المنضوية تحت محور «ممانعة أميركا»، في قفص الاتهام ذاته، بعدما كان تصنيف «الإرهابي» مقترنا بعناصر تنظيم «القاعدة» فقط. أما اليوم، وقد تحقق الجزء الأهم من الـ«بروباغندا» الأميركية لـ«الحرب على الإرهاب» بمقتل زعيم
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Novak: The Southern Leaders Don’t Practice Democracy

Filed under: Janes Articles, mentions — by Jane Novak at 8:37 am on Wednesday, December 8, 2010

My interview with the Aden News Agency

Jane Novak… a name that has become coupled with Yemen, not Yemen that is known as it is known by those who doesn’t know it, but Yemen as it known by its people, with all its sorrows and economical, political and humanitarian setbacks, that are recognized by Jane Novak from a distance, from the United States, her country. The human rights, political and media activist, Jane Novak, has devoted herself for Yemen and its several issues, and whom the distance couldn’t separate her from Yemen’s issues, but she has recognized them at first hand, whether traditionally or through the modern technology.

Jane Novak is known for her severe defense for the human rights in Yemen and the freedom of the press and word, besides giving a number of initiatives that may extract Yemen from its political crises. She is also known for her unhurried reading of the reality of Yemen, and refraining from reading one-media propaganda, while she wrote tens of articles about Yemen and its issues accurately and objectively on famous websites like World Press, Arab American News, in addition to her well-known website the Armies of Liberation, this empathy gained her the sympathy of many of the Southern Case supporters in the south, and Sa’ada Case in the north.

The Aden News Agency has conducted an exclusive interview with the writer Jane Novak, we hope that it would cast some light on the fact of the different and recent issues of Yemen.

* You were attacked by official Yemeni media, are you afraid of visiting Yemen?

- The Yemeni government treats me as if I am a Yemeni journalist. They blocked my website for years, introduced false testimony about me in court and slandered me in the newspapers. We know what happens to Yemeni journalists, they get arrested, kidnapped and imprisoned and suffer other penalties for their work. The Yemeni government has no ethics or humanitarian limitations regarding its own citizens. The reason for the targeting of Yemeni journalists is that the truth is so dangerous to the regime. The Yemeni government spends a lot of energy creating propaganda and false realities for the Yemeni citizens and the international community.

* Do not you think that there is a contradiction between the concept of “democracy” and the United States’ support for the regime of President Saleh that is in power in since 1978? (Read on …)

وفاك في حوار مع «عنا»: قادة الحراك لايمارسون الديمقراطية

Filed under: Janes Articles, mentions — by Jane Novak at 8:25 am on Wednesday, December 8, 2010

وفاك في حوار مع «عنا»: قادة الحراك لايمارسون الديمقراطية

Aden News Agency

الأربعاء / 8 ديسمبر كانون الأول 2010

جين نوفاك… اسم بات مقروناً باليمن، ليس باليمن الذي يعرفه من لا يعرفه، ولكن اليمن الذي يعرفه أهله بمآسيه ونكباته الاقتصادية والسياسية والانسانية والتي تعرفت عليها الكاتبة (جين نوفاك) عن بعد، من الولايات المتحدة الأميركية، موطنها، حيث سخرت هذه الكاتبة والناشطة الحقوقية والسياسية والإعلامية نفسها لليمن وقضايا اليمن المتعددة والتي لم تحول المسافة بينها وبين معرفتها بقضاياه بل تعرفت عليها عن قرب، عبر التماس حال الناس أنفسهم، سواءً بأسلوب تقليدي أو معاصر عبر التقنية الحديثة.

وعرفت “جين نوفاك” بدفاعها الشرس عن حقوق الإنسان في اليمن، وحرية الصحافة والكلمة، إلى جانب تقديمها المبادرات تلو الأخرى للخروج باليمن من أزماته السياسية المتأزمة، حيث تمتاز بقراءتها المتأنية للواقع اليمني وعدم اتباع الإعلام الواحد سواء كان إعلام السلطة أو المعارضة حيث قامت بكتابة العشرات من المقالات عن اليمن وأزماته بكل موضوعية ودقة وتعبير عن حال اليمن المعاش في عدة مواقع إلكترونية معروفة كـ World Press و Arab American News بالإضافة إلى موقعها الشهير Armies of Liberation أو “جيوش الحرية”، الشيء الأمر أدى بالتالي إلى اكتسابها تعاطف الكثير من حملة القضية الجنوبية جنوباً, وحملة قضية صعدة شمالاً, وحملة القضايا الاقتصادية والسياسية والحقوقية والاجتماعية جنوباً و شمالاً.

وفي حوار مع وكالة أنباء عدن “عنا” قالت نوفاك أن النظام اليمني يلعب ببطاقة الإرهاب بشكل جيد جداً, مضيفة “والعلاقة السرية مع القاعدة تجلب الكثير من الفوائد لكل من النظام والقاعدة على حد سواء”.

وقالت نوفاك أن “ادعاء الولايات المتحدة بأن اليمن بلد ديمقراطي أو مهتم بالتقدم الديمقراطي. وهذا يسمح للنظام الحاكم أن يتنصل من المسؤولية عن أفعاله”, واتهمت “الولايات المتحدة والمانحين الغربيين يبدو أنهم يريدون أي انتخابات، سواء كانت نزيهة أم لا، لكي تضفي صورة شرعية على حزب حاكم مهيمن”.

وعن ما وصفتها بـ”جرائم الحرب العلنية” قالت نوفاك “إنها الآن مفتوحة تماماً وموثقة بشكل جيد من قبل جماعات حقوق الإنسان الدولية” لكنها استدركت “حتى الآن يركز المجتمع الدولي على المضي قدماً مع الرئيس صالح” وعن إمكانية رفع قضايا في محاكم دولية أكدت أن هناك “رغبة ضعيفة من جانب المجتمع الدولي لتعقب هذه الاتهامات”.

وانتقدت “نوفاك أحزاب المعارضة اليمنية بأنها لديها “نفس العقلية النخبوية التي ينتقدونها. الشخصيات القيادية لازالوا قيادات سياسية لعقود” وأضافت “اللقاء المشترك يحرك قاعدته في شكل احتجاجات فقط كتكتيك مؤقت للضغط على المؤتمر الشعبي العام وعادة مايكون في خضم صفقة”.
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A teaser on my interview with Aden News Agency

Filed under: mentions — by Jane Novak at 11:17 am on Saturday, December 4, 2010

The interview actually contains the phrase, “President Saleh, to his credit….”

ANA: United States of America (us) – ruled out the American journalist specialized in the affairs of Yemen “Jane Novak” any US military intervention in Yemen, describing the consequences of such a thing as “disastrous” and emphasized that, according to US government officials the United States is “working with the army and the Yemeni security” but however that “the United States lacks the truth of the Yemeni side.” (Read on …)

Jane Novak, Hausfrau Und Staats-Feindin

Filed under: mentions — by Jane Novak at 11:55 am on Thursday, September 9, 2010

Annabelle 8/25/10

Diese hausfrau ist der Schrecken der jemenitischen Regierung. Denn Jane Novaks Blog gibt der Bevolkerung des arabischen Landes eine Stimme. Taglich deckt die Amerikanerin Missstande auf – obwohl sie noch nie einen Fuss in den Jemen gesetzt hat.

Minderstens sechs Stunden am Tag bearbeitet Jane Novak ihre emails und surft arabische Zeitungen und websites im Internet ab. Alle Meldungen, die sie unber den Jemen finden kann, lasst sie sich vom Uber setzungsprogramm ihres Computers ins English ubersetzen, checkt die Informationen und fugt all diese Puzzlestucke zu einem Gesamtbild, zu einer ausserst prazisen Innenansicht des geheimnisvollen Jemen zusammen. (Read on …)

Jane Novak, the terror of the Yemeni government

Filed under: Yemen, mentions — by Jane Novak at 9:40 am on Thursday, September 9, 2010

(published August 25, 2010 by Annabelle Magazine, Switzerland, translated from German)

The housewife and state enemy

This housewife is the terror of the Yemeni government. For Jane Novak’s blog is the population of the Arab country’s one vote. The American covers the situation daily – even though she has never set foot in the Yemen.

When Jane Novak’s morning alarm clock rings at 6:45, it is still dark outside in New Jersey. Her husband, on a construction site in Manhattan, has been several hours out of the house. As always, Jane Novak wakes first the young son and then the daughter. She runs down quickly in the kitchen, baking waffles and bagels smeared and gives each child a glass of orange juice.

“Do you have your homework?” Two quick kisses goodbye, and then the school bus turns the corner. Jane Novak fills the washing machine, makes the beds and writes a shopping list for the supermarket. Then she climbs the stairs to the basement where her work is, where gold framed baby pictures, wedding pictures and other family photographs hang over her desk. Outside the window is the tiptop-kept garden of Novak- an American idyll.

Jane Novak opens the lid of her laptop. Now the 48 – year old is state enemy No. 1
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Jane Novak, Housewife and State Enemy

Filed under: Yemen, mentions — by Jane Novak at 8:38 am on Sunday, September 5, 2010

The August 25 issue of Anabelle, the largest woman’s magazine in Switzerland, has a profile of yours truly starting on page 60. Its not online but I decided to translate the title and one blockquote:

Hausfrau Und Staats-Feindin
diese hausfrau ist der Schrecken der jemenitischen Regierung. Denn Jane Novaks Blog gibt der Bevolkerung des arabischen Landes eine Stimme. Taglich deckt die Amerikanerin Missstande auf – obwohl sie noch nie einen Fuss in den Jemen gesetzt hat.

“Mutter sind mutter, egal, wo sie leben und an welchen Gott sie glauben”

Housewife and state enemy
This housewife is the terror of the Yemeni government. For Jane Novak’s blog is the population of the Arab country’s one vote. The American covers the situation daily – even though she has never set foot in the Yemen.

“Mothers are mothers, no matter where they live and what God they believe in.”

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