Maysaa Shuja al-Deen has been writing for Al-Monitor since June 2014. She is a Yemeni journalist who writes for Jadaliyya, Weghat Nazar and several Yemeni newspapers. A master’s degree student in the department of Arab and Islamic civilizations at the American University in Cairo, she has recently finished shooting a documentary about unity and the Southern Movement in Yemen.
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