Yasmine El Rashidi is an author. She is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and an editor of the Middle East arts and culture quarterly Bidoun. El Rashidi is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a contributing editor to the Middle East arts and culture quarterly Bidoun. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. Her first book, "The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution," was published in 2011. Her second book, the novel "Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt," was published in 2016. Her third book, "Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change," was published in 2023.