Yasmine_El_Rashidi

Yasmine El Rashidi

Yasmine El Rashidi

Egyptian writer

Yasmine El Rashidi (Arabic: ياسمين الرشيدي;) (born 1977) is an Egyptian author. She is the author of The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution and Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt, a coming-of-age novel set in 1984 in Cairo that was long-listed for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award.[1] She is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a contributing editor to the Middle East arts and culture quarterly Bidoun. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.

Selected works

Novels

  • Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt. 2016.

Non-fiction

  • The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution. 2011.
  • — (February 22, 2018). "Toughing it out in Cairo". The New York Review of Books. 65 (3): 44–46.
  • Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change. 2023.

References

  1. [1]
    "Contributors: Yasmine El Rashid". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 29 March 2017.


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