Yasmin El-Rifae
 
Yasmin El-Rifae joined Mada Masr’s editorial team in 2019, where she focuses on gender, among other areas. Her first book, Radius, a narrative history of the militant feminist group Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment and Assault, will be published by Verso in read more
 
Opinion
Yasmin El-Rifae
We’ve broken the silence — now what?
Agreeing that rape happens and that it’s bad is not a large enough common ground
Yasmin El-Rifae
Inherent guilt: Menna Abdel Aziz and the victims of Ahmed Bassam Zaki
Rape is not done by monsters, it is done by human beings
Yasmin El-Rifae
Language after brutality
Is it enough to tell the stories of those who are more definitively silenced?
 
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features
Noor Naga, metafiction and the limits of self-knowledge
Yasmin El-Rifae | What happens when a story from Cairo is written in English and published for an American reader?
What now? A changed struggle, and motherhood in an uprising
Yasmin El-Rifae | She texted a sort of proverb: “Having kids brings cowardliness.” And it’s true, I have to say.
Double authorship: A conversation on I May Destroy You
Yasmin El-Rifae | On both consent and capitalism, IMDY investigates a double layer of authorship.
Ramadan TV 2020: What’s worth tolerating this year?
Adham al-Shaer, Hadeer El-Mahdawy, Karoline Kamel, Leila Arman, Mohamed Ashraf Abu Emaira, Mohamed Tarek, Mostafa Mohie, Nada Arafat, Omar Said, Salah El Oweidy, Sara Seif Eddin, Yasmin El-Rifae and Yasmine Zohdi | Nothing can stand in the way of the Ramadan TV season — not even the worst pandemic in 100 years.
Palestine: What was happening here was never normal anyway
Yasmin El-Rifae | How much will we normalize surveillance of our lives, for the sake of supposed safety?
Confinement and disruption: How children are coping with the pandemic
Yasmin El-Rifae | “We have to look after ourselves as parents, otherwise we can’t help them.”
 
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