Yasmine El Rashidi (b. 1977, Cairo) is a writer and critic whose work explores politicised urban spaces, architectural memory and personal archives. She writes about arts and politics for The New York Review of Books and is an editor at the culture journal Bidoun. El Rashidi has written several books, including Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt (Penguin Random House, 2016). Her essays have appeared in Frieze, Artforum, Aperture, The Architectural Review and Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art as well as exhibition catalogues for institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sharjah Art Foundation and New Museum, New York. She has held fellowships at Princeton University; Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York; and Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris. El Rashidi is a Graham Foundation grantee and a committee member for Gypsum Gallery’s Bursary Prize.