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Youssef Rakha

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The Dissenters: A Novel (is.gd/u0eft7 & is.gd/uycOKU) Postmuslim: Essays (2026) News: therakha.substack.com. Agent: Ayesha @pande_literary
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Ring - Guernica

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By Youssef Rakha
| Guernica Mag Verified
Youssef Rakha Youssef Rakha is an Egyptian writer of fiction and nonfiction working in Arabic and English. The Dissenters, his first novel to be written in English, appeared with Graywolf and Peninsula in February 2025. Postmuslim: A Testimony, from which this essay is excerpted, is due out with the same two presses in the fall of 2026. @therakhahimself
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Four Gates to the Hereafter: On The Dissenters

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By Youssef Rakha
| The Markaz Review
The Egyptian author of an epistolary novel — his first in English — meditates on whether his work will join the canon of world literature. Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement last month, called a “powerful, shimmering and clever novel,” The Dissenters is already on its way to winning over western readers.
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“The Dissenters,” by Youssef Rakha — The Dial

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By Youssef Rakha
| The Dial
⁂ Later, four years after the revolution when it is over and I am ready to move along, I recall that it was Mouna who drew my attention to the Jumpers. At first it was professional interest that drove me: a reporter on the trail of a scoop. But it soon felt like something much bigger, much more personal than journalism could ever be: Women of all ages and circumstances stepping over windowsills and leaping across balustrades, unaccountably killing themselves in the thick of protests and lies.
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