Yasmin El-Rifae Interview

In confronting rape, we are taught to appeal to the law, to the police, to anyone who can offer protection. What if the only way to prevent a rape were to intervene yourself? This issue, Lux is publishing a chapter of Radius, a new book by Yasmin El-Rifae, which tells the story of Opantish — Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment — a group that she and other women organized to intervene in mass sexual assaults that occurred in Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2013 phase of the Egyptian revolution.