September 11, 2011 What remains Jennifer Steil On September 11, 2001 I was in a yoga class in midtown Manhattan, envisioning a peaceful universe, when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. But it wasn’t until I had raced through a shower and was heading out of the locker room that I knew. Oddly, [...]
Sep
07
2011
This is the unedited piece I wrote for The Washington Times, for those interested in the longer version! Jennifer LONDON – The grass-carpeted grove of trees just inside the Rosary Gate of Battersea Park is known as the American Ground. When the park was first created in the 1850s, it was planted with North American [...]
Jul
26
2011
Dancing on the grave of the News of the World The most shocking thing about the recent News of the World phone hacking scandal is that the Brits are pretending to be shocked. Our precious tabloid newspapers? Behave unscrupulously? We’re stunned! Come on, people. For decades, the UK’s tabloid press has been renowned for paying [...]
Jul
19
2010
From The New York Times When Jennifer Steil accepted a job running an English-language newspaper and teaching journalism inYemen for a year, she must have known that her experiences would yield a droll story or two. An unattached 37-year-old from Manhattan, she liked drinking beer (“I love bars, everything about them,” she writes) and flirting [...]
Jun
28
2010
From ABC Tasmania Annie recently spoke to American journalist Jennifer Steil who accepted a job in Yemen as a newspaper editor- a rare role for a women in that part of the World- let alone a Western woman! Jennifer talked about why she chose the role and the challenges and triumphs she faced and how differently [...]
Jun
21
2010
From PopMatters Lively, crafted with care, engagingly detailed, paced smoothly, this reads as if invented rather than fact. In 2006, Steil enters Sana’a, dons the veil, and mutes (slightly) her New York sass. This is not Sex in the City 2—there are no shopping mall sprees in Abu Dhabi. On the other side of Arabia’s [...]
Jun
21
2010
From A Traveler’s Library She was a woman who fell from the sky in robes of dew and became a city. Jennifer Steil uses this poetic description of Sana’a, the capitol of Yemen as a frontispiece for her travel memoir, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky. Until I read the poem, I assumed that [...]
Jun
19
2010
From literatlas.com It’s tricky for the average New Zealander to place Yemen on the map it seems, after asking around. Even fewer know much about this ancient place, and when they do, repeat the all-too-common media spiel, referring to it as a ‘breeding-ground for terrorism’. However, American journalist, Jennifer Steil, believes there’s far more to [...]
Jun
16
2010
From Forbes.com Journalist Jennifer Steil’s peaceful life came tumbling down when she was held at gunpoint while six months pregnant. Jennifer Steil was six months pregnant last summer when she was held at gunpoint while hiking with friends outside Yemen’s capital city Sana’a. Last April her fiancé Tim Torlot, the British ambassador to Yemen, survived [...]
May
19
2010
Just about everyone I meet is writing a book. At parties and dinners they usually trap me in a corner between a potted plant and a wall, and they harangue me about a their masterwork. As a published author they expect I’ll be able to smooth the way up the long hard slope to Print-hood [...]
