Why do people want the secret recipe for a fearless life? Why is everyone afraid of fear? And have I faced all my demons yet?
In the past fifteen years, visiting countless war zones and peaceful terrains, I searched for answers to these questions and began to examine my fears, as a reporter, mother, half-Arab woman, and Hungarian citizen. I realized that fear acts as a fuel in us that can bring out the best and the worst in us. But what depends on which one? I searched for the answer to this question when I started on the path of mapping fear. I asked survivors of traumatic events as well as renowned researchers and world-renowned social psychologists about how fear transforms our body and soul, how it transforms our habits and behavior.

"When the first edition of this book was published, I never dreamed that a few years later an invisible enemy, a virus, would bring the whole world to its knees. And this makes the message of my book even more relevant, that we should not suppress our feelings, our fears, our anxieties , but rather understanding, coping and re-evaluating difficult situations should motivate us." - Al Ghaoui Hesna

"Hesna Al Ghaoui's remarkable book, Fear Courageously, deals with a critical question in understanding our human nature: FEAR. It shows in a fascinating way how fear works in all of us - paradoxically both to our advantage and to our disadvantage. Buy this priceless treasure today , read it tomorrow, gain from it both intellectually and personally." - Philip Zimbardo, professor emeritus of Stanford University's psychology department, director of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment

Al Ghaoui Hesna is a Prima Primissima award-winning journalist and filmmaker who, as an employee of Hungarian Television, has reported from more than twenty countries, including many war zones. In his report series Babel, he covered the driving forces of human behavior, and in his podcast Bátrosságlabor, he questioned psychologists about the secret recipe for coping. As a mother of two children, she also addressed children with the theme of courage, with her series about Holli. In 2021, thanks to a Fulbright research grant, he had the opportunity to study the motives of fear and mental adaptability at the University of California, Berkeley.