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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Keyboard Crusader
One of my Cotillion sisters has done us proud.
Jane's getting something done. From her living room, with her keyboard, she's shaking up a country halfway around the world. Great job, Jane!
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.Read the entire article. It's great. Then send a letter.
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.”
Jane's getting something done. From her living room, with her keyboard, she's shaking up a country halfway around the world. Great job, Jane!