Mallory Moench

Mallory Moench is a multimedia journalist with experience covering diverse social issues on three continents. She's been published by Al Jazeera, The Wire India, The Local Sweden, and New York Daily News, among others. Raised in Europe and formerly employed in India, she's a global nomad with insatiable wanderlust.

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The War on Immigrants

Her 13-Year Old Son Is in America. She Is Stranded in Djibouti. What Can a Yemeni Mother Do?

Mallory Moench

- Jul. 17

Hundreds of Yemeni-Americans who can't get visas under Trump's travel ban have to decide if they will risk returning to a war zone. Many already have.

Yemenis inspect the site of a suicide bombing that targeted the finance ministry building of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government in the country's second city of Aden on November 29, 2017.In a statement on its Amaq propaganda arm, IS claimed the "detonation of a parked explosive-laden vehicle" outside the ministry building in the southern port city of Aden, which serves as the headquarters of the Yemeni government.Despite a Saudi-led military intervention launched in March 2015, the capital Sanaa and much of north of the country remain in the hands of Shiite rebels. / AFP PHOTO / NABIL HASSAN (Photo credit should read NABIL HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Making a Killing

Banned from the U.S. Due to Terrorist Threats, Yemenis Are Themselves the Victims of Attacks

Mallory Moench

- Feb. 18

Khaldoon Gahleeb was assassinated by ISIS in November. He had been waiting for a visa to join his family in the U.S. when Trump banned immigration from Yemen.

Emgergency services and Yemeni civilians search under the rubble of houses destroyed in an air strike in the residential southern Faj Attan district of the capital, Sanaa, on August 25, 2017.The attack destroyed two buildings in the southern district, leaving people buried under debris, witnesses and medics said. / AFP PHOTO / Mohammed HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Yemenis Thought They'd Won the Visa Lottery. Then Came Trump's Muslim Ban.

Mallory Moench

- Oct. 19

Despite federal judges ruling against Trump's travel ban, many winners of “diversity visas” from banned countries are out of luck.

Mallory Moench

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Her 13-Year Old Son Is in America. She Is Stranded in Djibouti. What Can a Yemeni Mother Do?

Banned from the U.S. Due to Terrorist Threats, Yemenis Are Themselves the Victims of Attacks

Yemenis Thought They'd Won the Visa Lottery. Then Came Trump's Muslim Ban.