Yasmine El Rashidi
Yasmine El Rashidi is an Egyptian writer and critic based in Cairo. She is the author of The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution and the novel Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and a contributing editor to the Middle East arts and culture quarterly Bidoun, her work has also appeared in publications including The Guardian, London Review of Books, and Le Monde Diplomatique.
Egypt
A decade after Egypt's revolution, Yasmine El Rashidi turns to mahraganat—the country's vibrant hip-hop movement—to ask what became of the promise of the Arab Spring. Through the voices of Egypt's youth, Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change explores music as a force for identity, dissent, and social change.