Yasmine El Rashidi

Yasmine El Rashidi (Arabic: ياسمين الرشيدي;) (born 1977) 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, and a contributing editor to the Middle East arts and culture quarterly Bidoun. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.

Selected works

Novels

• Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt. 2016.

Non-fiction

• The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution. 2011.
• — (February 22, 2018). "Toughing it out in Cairo". The New York Review of Books. 65 (3): 44–46.
• Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change. 2023.