Yasmine El Rashidi: 2 books
by Yasmine El Rashidi, Timothy Garton Ash
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In a series of riveting dispatches, Cairo native Yasmine El Rashidi provides an eyewitness account of the entire 2011 Egyptian Revolution as it unfolded, from its origins in the days leading up to the first January 25 protest in Tahrir Square through the violent confrontations with the regime and...
Chronicle of a Last Summer
A Novel of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel.
Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother’s phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom...