Laura Kasinof lived in Yemen for nearly three years and reported for the New York Times during the country's 2011 political revolt that was part of the Arab Spring. Her first book, Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen (Arcade 2014), was about that time. She now lives in Berlin and writes mainly about migration. For more, see laurakasinof.com.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgians turned en masse to religion. Today, the Orthodox Church’s conservative beliefs are clashing with the country’s increasingly close ties to the EU.