Laura Kasinof is a freelance print journalist based in Sanaa, Yemen where she reports regularly for The New York Times.
Her articles have also appeared in Foreign Policy, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Al Jazeera International, the Huffington Post and GlobalPost. She has discussed Yemen, the Arab Spring and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on radio and TV outlets such as BBC World Service, Democracy Now, Al Jazeera International and NPR.
Laura graduated from New York University with a degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Politics. She has been living between Cairo and Sanaa for the past four years.
She would like to think that she speaks Arabic.