Youssef Rakha

Youssef Rakha, born in Cairo in 1976, is an Egyptian author of prose, poetry and nonfiction. He graduated from the University of Hull in England in 1998. From 1990 onward, he worked in English-language journalism, including as a senior writer for Al-Ahram Weekly. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Lettre International and The Writer Review, and he has also published articles and translations in the Arabic press.