Radius Paperback by Yasmin El-Rifae

Product Details

• Publisher: Verso (2026-08-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781839767692
• Item Weight: 192.78 grams
• Dimensions: 19.74 x 12.88 x 1.5 cm

A haunting, intimate account of the women and men who built a feminist revolution in the middle of the Arab Spring

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.

About the Author

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.