Yasmine El Rashidi
EGYPT
2020/2021
The Last of The Revolutionaries Bow Down
At the Institute, she will work on Book II of The Last of The Revolutionaries Bow Down, a multi-genre trilogy that probes a pivotal moment in Egypt's history—its defeat to Israel in the ‘67 war.
Yasmine El Rashidi is the author of The Battle for Egypt, Dispatches from the Revolution, and Chronicle of a Last Summer, A Novel of Egypt. She writes on politics and culture for The New York Review of Books, and is an editor of the Middle East arts and culture journal Bidoun.