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Laura Kasinof

@kasinof

award-winning journalist
📖 Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
Formerly in Cairo, Sanaa, Berlin & Tbilisi. Now back in US

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every gaza family reunion happening in cairo is a miracle, and a crime. there is unspeakable injustice in every life paid for and saved.

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So, yesterday we launched a major Arabic project that has three main long-term ambitions: 1. New type of content that goes beyond headlines & beyond political and religious ideologies to explore, through storytelling, cultural & political themes across the region on a local and

So, yesterday we launched a major Arabic project that has three main long-term ambitions:

1. New type of content that goes beyond headlines & beyond political and religious ideologies to explore, through storytelling, cultural & political themes across the region on a local and
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Give the news from Sanaa it's probably a good time to revisit this article: The Yemeni Employees the U.S. Left Behind - The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa relocated to Saudi Arabia after the Houthi takeover. Local workers who remained felt abandoned. foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/06/yem… #Houthis

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Fresh from the printer and in my mailbox, the summer issue of Lux Magazine along with my article on Bushra al-Maqtari's oral history of the war in #Yemen. Bushra's book, What Have You Left Behind? (tr. Sawad Hussain) is brutal and heartbreaking, yet so important. I hope you read it.

Fresh from the printer and in my mailbox, the summer issue of <a href="/readlux/">Lux Magazine</a> along with my article on Bushra al-Maqtari's oral history of the war in #Yemen. Bushra's book, What Have You Left Behind? (tr. <a href="/sawadhussain/">Sawad Hussain</a>) is brutal and heartbreaking, yet so important. I hope you read it.
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Please forgive me for this completely apolitical post, but today I learned a new Arabic word رفرفة and this onomatopoeia is bringing joy to my heart.

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My Socotra feature for Virginia Quarterly Review is now out in Italian too! See it in this month's Internazionale Continual thanks to International Women's Media Foundation and the Howard Buffett Fund for Women Journalists for allowing this story to happen #iwmffellows #socotra #yemen internazionale.it/magazine/laura…

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My article for Lux Magazine on Bushra al-Maqtari's brutal and deeply important book, What Have You Left Behind?, an oral history of the war in #Yemen (tr. Sawad Hussain), is now un-paywalled and available for all to read online. lux-magazine.com/article/fragme…

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in other news, I've discovered that homegrown shishito peppers when freshly picked smell just like qat and I will die on that hill

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هنا لندن كتابنا "كتاب صنعاء" صار في متناول اليد بعد خروجه من المطبعة في لندن .... متوفر على أمازون ومنصة دار كوما بريس اللندنية وجميع منصات البيع العالمية شكرا كوما بريس Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow #The_Book_Of_Sanaa

هنا لندن
 كتابنا "كتاب صنعاء" صار في متناول اليد بعد خروجه من المطبعة في لندن .... 
متوفر على أمازون ومنصة دار كوما بريس اللندنية وجميع منصات البيع العالمية 
شكرا كوما بريس 
<a href="/commapress/">Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow</a> 
#The_Book_Of_Sanaa
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Look what just came in the mail Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow 🤩 A big thank you to all the writers and translators who made The Book of Sana'a a reality. What a time to be celebrating fiction coming out of #Yemen Order your copy: commapress.co.uk/books/the-book…

Look what just came in the mail <a href="/commapress/">Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow</a> 🤩

A big thank you to all the writers and translators who made The Book of Sana'a a reality. What a time to be celebrating fiction coming out of #Yemen

Order your copy: commapress.co.uk/books/the-book…
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The consistent flow of emails over the past week from all my favorite small literary presses and arts orgs about their loss of NEA funding has been truly depressing. Deep Vellum Mizna and Center for the Art of Translation to name a few.

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Today in the ARB: Rosie Milnes reviews “The Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction” edited by Laura Kasinof Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow asianreviewofbooks.com/the-book-of-sa…