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Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets

An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen

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Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets

By: Laura Kasinof
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
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Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later - after 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 Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen’s people and culture, in addition to finding herself the star of a local TV soap opera. When antigovernment protests broke out in Yemen, 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 isolated - and even more determined to report on what she saw. Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets is a fascinating and important debut by a talented young journalist.

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only 4 chapters in and it's been engaging so far. There are two detractions:

One, the reader absolutely butchers the Arabic language, I hope the reader is not the author. And

Two, the impersonations of men and Arabs speaking English is painful to listen to and off putting.

Note for the performer- Akkhhmad is not a name in Arabic.

Note to the author: ميدان التحرير means Liberation Square. It does not translate to Change Square

interesting and relatable story

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The performance of this audio book made me feel sick. Why the hell did the narrator try to mimic what she thought was a Yemeni voice? It sounds like a cartoon version of an Arabic accent performed by someone who has never met a middle eastern person.

If someone did this mimicking a Chinese accent, there would be uproar.

There is a good story here of a journalist in Yemen (if narcissistic), but its horribly hard to get through. I gagged a few times when I listen to it by just how awful the performance is.

Repulsive performance - pretty much racist

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