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Arab feminism
Arab Spring
Author_Yasmin El-Rifae
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Chanel Miller
counterrevolution
Egypt
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feminism
forthcoming
Linda Sarsour
memoir
Morsi
Mubarak
Muslim Brotherhood
Nazi Afisi
rape
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Rebecca Solnit
revolution
Roxane Gay
sexual assault
Tahrir Square
women of color feminism
Product details
- ISBN 9781839767692
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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During the final months of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, a group of activists came together to intervene in the mob sexual assaults recurring amid the ongoing protests of Tahrir Square. The organization was called Opantish, and Yasmin El-Rifae was one of the organizers. This is her surgical, searching, and harrowing account of frontline battles, back-alley escapes, supply lines, and safe houses, as well as the personal and political reckonings that followed.
In a new preface, El-Rifae reflects on what her extraordinary experiences demonstrate when placed within the long history of imperial violence in the region.
In a new preface, El-Rifae reflects on what her extraordinary experiences demonstrate when placed within the long history of imperial violence in the region.
Yasmin El-Rifae is a writer, editor, and co-producer of the Palestine Festival of Literature. She works with Cairo's independent Mada Masr newspaper, and her writing has also appeared in LitHub, The Nation, and Lux magazine, among other places. This is her first book.
