Youssef Rakha is the cultural editor at the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Weekly and the author of seven books in Arabic. His novel Book of the Sultan’s Seal (Dar El Sherouk, 2011) is forthcoming in English with Interlink. He has written for, among many publications, Parnassus: Poetry in Review and McSweeney’s. Some of his work can be seen on yrakha.wordpress.com.
Nonfiction
Summer 2012
In Extremis: Literature and Revolution in Contemporary Cairo (An Oriental Essay in Seven Parts)
Theorem Here is a suitably exotic Sufi folk tale from the Nile Delta: The imam of the Friday prayers bumps into a little old dervish at the entrance to the […]
Winter 2013
Thus Spoke Che Nawwarah: Interview with a Revolutionary
I became obsessed with sodomizing Sheikh Arif round about the time his posters started crawling all over the streets. Today is July 20, 2012, right? A little over a year […]
Youssef Rakha
Youssef Rakha is the cultural editor at the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Weekly and the author of seven books in Arabic. His novel Book of the Sultan’s Seal (Dar El Sherouk, 2011) […]