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Contributors | Haley Sweetland Edwards

Haley Sweetland Edwards is a freelance writer living and working in the Caucasus and the Middle East. Over the course of my travels, she chewed qat with Yemeni sheikhs, trekked with Bedouins in the Sahara, weathered tear-gassings in Srinagar and Sana’a, back-country skied in the Rockies, climbed to prehistoric cave paintings in Somaliland, sailed through the Panama Canal, picnicked in the Mayan pyramids and, just once, threw myself out of a plane over Washington State.

Sweetland Edwards' reporting has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Foreign Policy.com, New York Magazine online, The National, New York Times.com, Slate, and Mental Floss.

She has lived in, and reported from, Yemen on and off from 2009 to spring 2011, thanks in part to a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Fellowship. Sweetland Edwards has been grossly over-educated at Yale (BA philosophy & history) and Columbia (MA journalism & politics), where she learned, among other things, how to drink whiskey, ski the giant slalom, and pretend to understand Heidegger. She currently live in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Georgia: Renewable Energy Comes at Environmental Cost

By Haley Sweetland Edwards | May 04, 2012

TBILISI -- Over the past nine years, the United Nations Development Programme has helped transform Georgia’s once-nascent hydropower industry into one of the country’s most dynamic economic sectors in Georgia. Since 2006, Georgia has nearly quadrupled its electricity production to more than 10,000 M KwH in 2011, the majority of which comes from hydropower.

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Egypt's New Feminists Make their Case

By Haley Sweetland Edwards | Mar 07, 2012

In honor of International Women's Day, The InterDependent takes a look at the progress made in gender equality.

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As Security Council Debates Syria, Libyan Intervention Looms Large

By Haley Sweetland Edwards | Feb 01, 2012

Ten months ago, when General Muammar Qaddafi's well-armed forces began gunning down Libyans block by block, the international community was galvanized to act. On March 17, the United Nations Security Council passed an unprecedented resolution mandating the use of "all necessary measures" to protect civilians.

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Future of Women's Rights in the Arab Spring Still Uncertain

By Haley Sweetland Edwards | Dec 09, 2011

In early December, a shaky, 40-second video clip began to skitter across the internet. A woman in a black abaya stands in front of a row of reinforced police cars, fearlessly looking onto a teargas-clouded street in Bahrain.

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