Laura Kasinof

Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets

An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen

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Produktbeschreibung

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years laterafter 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 the capital city of Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen’s people and culture, and even found herself the star of a local TV soap opera. When antigovernment protests broke out in Yemen in 2011, 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. As foreign reporters were rounded up and shipped out of the country, Laura managed to elude the authorities but found herself increasingly isolatedand even more determined to report on what she saw. With a new foreword by the author about what has happened in Yemen since the book’s initial publication, Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets is a fascinating and important debut by a talented young journalist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcade Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9781628726480
• ISBN-10: 1628726482
• Artikelnr.: 43358017

Autorenporträt

Laura Kasinof is a freelance journalist who, at the age of twenty-five, reported from Yemen for The New York Times during the Arab Spring protests of 2011. Laura's work has also appeared in the Washington Monthly, the Economist and the Christian Science Monitor, among other publications.