Yasmine El Rashidi (Arabic: ياسمين الرشيدي;) is an Egyptian author. 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
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'', and a contributing editor to the Middle East arts and culture quarterly ''Bidoun''. She is a contributing opinion writer for ''
The New York Times
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''.
Selected works
Novels
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Non-fiction
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References
1977 births
Living people
Egyptian women journalists
Egyptian writers
The New York Review of Books people
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