Laura Kasinof

Biography

Laura Kasinof is a freelance journalist and author of the memoir Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen (Arcade, 2014), about reporting for the New York Times during the Arab Spring. She has also written for Harper’s, the Atlantic, Newsweek, and Foreign Policy.

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REPORTING / Winter 2023

The Island of Myth and Longing

By Laura Kasinof ,  Photography by Tarim Contin-Kennedy

Socotra, once a secret paradise, is at a crossroads between its natural integrity and the need for development. Can it have both?

Tree tops with mountains in the distance.
REPORTING / Spring 2017

The New Berliners

By Laura Kasinof ,  Photography by Alex Potter ,  Illustrations by George Butler

On a chilly April morning in 2016, at a newly converted shelter in southern Berlin, Om Belal struggled as she maneuvered her ten-year-old son, Jad, in his wheelchair out the building’s front door.
#VQRTRUESTORY / Winter 2017

Farhad

By Laura Kasinof ,  Photography by Alex Potter

Ahlam, twenty-seven, was visiting Germany for a conference in the spring of 2015 when war broke out in Yemen, her home country. Her family urged her to stay, so she applied for asylum. “For me, it’s a new life,” she said. “This is what I...

Hope for Sale

By Laura Kasinof