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Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later—after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen’s people and culture, in addition to finding herself the star of a local TV soap opera.When antigovernment protests broke out in Yemen, part of the revolts sweeping the Arab world at the time, she contacted the New York Times to see if she could cover the rapidly unfolding events for the newspaper. Laura never planned to be a war correspondent, but found herself in the middle of brutal government attacks on peaceful protesters.
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Laura Kasinof is a freelance journalist whose work focuses on the Middle East. From 2011-2012, she reported for the New York Times from Yemen, covering antigovernment protests and conflict that was part of the political upheaval unfolding across the Arab world. Her first book, Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen, is about that experience.
