Yasmine El Rashidi

writes about arts and politics for The New York Review of Books, and is a contributing editor to the arts journal Bidoun. She is the author of The Battle for Egypt, Dispatches from the Revolution, and Chronicle of a Last Summer, A Novel of Egypt. She lives in Cairo.

Becoming Free Behind Bars: A Review of Huna

Becoming Free Behind Bars: A Review of Huna

Gripping, heartbreaking, and resolute, this debut memoir affirms the human intellect as a site of resistance.

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Yasmine El Rashidi
Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Political Prisoner and Public Intellectual

Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Political Prisoner and Public Intellectual

Yasmine El Rashidi on writer-thinker Alaa Abdel Fattah who advocates for the rights of those without platforms to...

1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Yasmine El Rashidi
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