Posts Tagged ‘al qaeda

What to do with Mali? Will it be the next Somalia?

The other day I was stopped on the street by a guy who said he was going to cycle from Malmö, the [...]

Cycle Touring; The Things We Take Away

 On and off somebody asks me which of my Expeditions have been the most difficult, the hardest and the most dangerous. Almost [...]

Why Timbuktu Will Overcome Its Latest Fundamentalist Conquerors

Steve Kemper´s article makes me very happy to read in many ways. He gives a perspective on a sore subject from the [...]

The challenge of making a documentary in Yemen

I just saw a half an hours documentary produced by PBS and Frontline  called “Al Qaeda in Yemen”. I was asked by a [...]

Expedition Yemen By Camel; Meeting Al Qaeda in Rumah and the Expedition ends

 ”I will miss sleeping under the stars” , Tanya said whilst we were cooking our last dinner under a moonlit sky full [...]

Expedition Yemen By Camel; Mission accomplished!

“This will be top news here for the coming 10 years!” Sheikh Saleem laughed out loud whilst I was cooking a costumary [...]

‘AL-Qaeda’ has no interest in us

AL-Qaeda has no interest in us, therefore they do not exist. Day 17 – July 2 - We made it to an area [...]

Three days away from the end of our camel journey

Day 15  On our way again in the desert. Three days away from the end of our camel journey through the desert [...]

There is electricity here, satellite television and mobile phones.

Day 9, June 24. It’s 50 degrees Celsius and in the shade, it’s 43 degrees.  We make our way when we have [...]

“Can it – the GPS – tell me where water is?”

Day 1 June 16, 2012 – in the middle of nowhere waiting to see if we have camel.  We have camel. Day [...]

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