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Yasmine El Rashidi is an Egyptian writer. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and a contributing editor to the Middle East arts and culture quarterly journal Bidoun. She worked on a personal history of Cairo and her first novel. A collection of her writings on the Egyptian revolution was published by NYRBooks in 2011.
Portrait by Brigitte Lacombe
Yasmine El Rashidi worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…