The air was hot with hysterical nationalism. It was alienating, chauvinistic, xenophobic, patriarchal. People were wild either with fear or with the promise of...
Yasmin El-Rifae's Radius (Verso, 2022) is a work of literary nonfiction about the Egyptian feminist...
Yasmin El-Rifae on her book “Radius: a Feminist Revolution” · KPFA Public Meetings · KPFA boards, committees and organizations. Local Station...
January 12, 2023. Image of book cover of "Radius" with a black · YE I'm still working that out. · I'm aware of harassment on the streets of Cairo, I've been...
Yasmin El-Rifae July 21, 2017. I'm sitting in my office in New York, lingering over the draft of an email I need to send to the staff.
In May Yasmin El-Rifae wrote a dispatch for the NYR Online about the response to the war on Gaza in Egypt, where civilians have demonstrated in...
The journalist and critic Ursula Lindsey writes about the Arab Spring as recounted in Yasmin El-Rifae's book Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution.
The Egyptian government's repression of its citizens and the Israeli government's occupation of Palestine are inextricably linked.
Dramatic images captured the moment anti-government activist Shaimaa El-Sabbagh was fatally shot at a peaceful demo.
Women have definitively broken the silence around sexual violence — now what? What is it that we want, beyond an end...
A journalist focusing on human rights and political issues in Egypt, known for her critical stance against the government.
