I was asked again to contribute to World Policy Journal’s summer issue. In it will be my reportage from Yemen. Also, if you haven’t seen my cleaned-up blog posts head over to the WPJ blog to check them out!
Micah Albert: Quenching Yemen’s Thirst
Micah Albert: Reporter’s Notebook — The First Taste of Yemen

Yemen work published in Washington Times

Writing is something I truly enjoy, but between you and me, I really don’t like straight news writing. As a journalist, it’s harder than you think to pull yourself completely out of the writing and make the reader believe that you were nothing more than a fly on the wall – a [...]

Some of my coverage of Yemen is in today’s BBC Middle East News. Click here to see it.

 
Recently, I sent an email with my feet/shoes overlooking Damascus, Syria to Keen thanking them for making my most comfortable and favorite travel shoes I have ever had. I noted that these shoes have probably been to more places than the average user and have kept up super well over the last three years. Traveling [...]

I’m spending my last evening in Yemen on the roof of my hotel overlooking the ancient city of Tiaz, enjoying the salty breeze from the Red Sea, and listening to the call to prayer as it is echoes across the city. Sitting here, as twilight approaches and bathes the city in a gorgeous warm light, [...]

Venturing deeper into the volatile seas off the coast of Yemen towards Somalia and Djibouti, fishermen like Abdalla Abrahem must spend more time and travel further into these troubled waters to find fish and support his family. Earning at best $10 a day, Abrahem and the rest of the people in the small village of [...]

At first I thought there was some sort of continuing problem in Yemen where many men had extremely large growths sticking out from their cheek. So abnormally large they are, if it were on both checks it would it would look cartoonishly exaggerated, like a squirrel.
I knew what qat was well before coming to Yemen, [...]