Stories Adrift
Yasmine El Rashidi
Yasmine El Rashidi reviews “The Swimmers, by Sally El Hosaini, in the New York Review of Books.
“The Swimmers, directed by the Welsh-Egyptian filmmaker Sally El Hosaini, doesn’t linger long on the usual tropes of retold refugee narratives, which tend to emphasize the struggle of building a new life in the country of arrival (…) instead El Hosaini focuses on the sisters’ continuing pursuit of their Olympian dream.”