The country is often misrepresented in Western media coverage, magnifying the country's negative aspects. A country of 24 million people of many different backgrounds "has been reduced to Al-Qaeda...wars, poverty, Qat, tribalism, or the ancestral home of Osama Bin Laden," writes blogger Atiaf Alwazir (@womanfromyemen) in her post "The Flawed Media Narrative on Yemen":