Yasmine El Rashidi
Yasmine El Rashidi (Arabic: ياسمين الرشيدي;) is an Egyptian writer. 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. 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".