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A Living-Room Crusade via Blogging--House-wife challenges the Yemeni government to free its people

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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."

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Great blog, and really good news for bloggers that she's getting the NY Times coverage. Zionist? In the best sense of the word, I suppose, though I don't think democracy for the Yemeni people really has anything to do with Zionism...

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Reply#1 - Tue May 20, 2008 6:35 PM EDT
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Excellent article. It shows quite clearly how one person can make a difference.

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Reply#2 - Wed May 21, 2008 12:54 AM EDT
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