Triple Canopy
264 Canal Street, Suite 3W
New York, NY 10013
February 4, 2025 at 7 pm

Please join us this Tuesday, February 4, in New York for a reading and conversation around Youssef Rakha’s new novel, The Dissenters. Rakha will be joined by novelist and Bidoun Contributing Editor Zain Khalid.

The Dissenters (Graywolf Press) is an engrossing and wildly ambitious account of one woman’s seven-decade journey through modern Egypt — an ecstatic collision of sex, politics, love, revolution, and reaction, from the heyday of Nasserism to the Islamic revival to the Arab Spring and its aftermaths.

Read “The Shit,” an excerpt from the book, in Bidoun.

Youssef Rakha is a Cairo-based writer. He is the author of 14 books in Arabic and English, including poems, travel writing, essays, and fiction. He has published four novels in Arabic, including Paolo, which was on the long list of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2017. The Dissenters is his first novel composed in English.

This event is co-hosted with Triple Canopy and Graywolf Press.