“To read . . . Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets is to understand how Yemen rose up, nearly fell apart, and tried to put itself back together in 2011. It’s a necessary primer on the chaos that has beset the country yet again.” —Washington Monthly

“[Laura Kasinof] provides vivid details of those years, bringing readers into the heat of the conflicts, into the mosques-turned-hospitals filled with the wounded and dying, and into the sitting rooms where she interviewed some of the most important men in Yemen . . . A moving portrait of life as a war correspondent. An action-packed account of the civil war in Yemen from a woman who experienced it firsthand.”
—Kirkus Review

“[Kasinof] captures the spirit of possibility . . . pulling the reader into her heady, complicated mix of emotions. . . . Her passion for the country still makes for a compelling tale.”
—Publishers Weekly

“This is a beautifully written, highly personal account of a young journalist’s experience with revolution and war in Yemen. Kasinof offers a revealing portrait of the lives and work of a rising generation of young journalists at a time of urgent and perplexing changes. She weaves together their stories with a compelling account of Yemen’s ambiguous revolution as witnessed by one of the few Western journalists on the ground. It is a gripping, thought-provoking read about how the news is really produced in today’s turbulent Middle East.”
—Marc Lynch, professor and director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, George Washington University