Yasmin El-Rifae

Jun 15, 2024 | nybooks.com | Ratik Asokan |Yasmin El-Rifae

In May Yasmin El-Rifae wrote a dispatch for the NYR Online about the response to the war on Gaza in Egypt, where civilians have demonstrated in solidarity with Palestine even as the Sisi regime clamps down on protests. El-Rifae drew attention to the links between authoritarianism in the two countries: Less often noted is the connection between Egypt’s repression of its citizens and Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

May 12, 2024 | almendron.com | Yasmin El-Rifae

In February satellite photographs of a new militarized buffer zone along Egypt’s border with Gaza circulated online. The Egyptian government was silent about the matter for a few days, then said that the area was being prepared so that aid trucks could enter the besieged Palestinian territory through the Rafah border crossing.

May 12, 2024 | nybooks.com | Yasmin El-Rifae

In February satellite photographs of a new militarized buffer zone along Egypt’s border with Gaza circulated online. The Egyptian government was silent about the matter for a few days, then said that the area was being prepared so that aid trucks could enter the besieged Palestinian territory through the Rafah border crossing.

Apr 21, 2024 | parapraxismagazine.com | Yasmin El-Rifae

From the perspective of the colonizer, innocence is impossible for colonized children, because innocence would mean innocence of knowledge of the domination that has already conditioned their lives. Think of the young child facing the gun while sheltering in a school, about to be killed, that child’s terror. That terror is not innocent—that is a terror with knowledge, as is the terror of the child watching their father executed or their home collapse.

Oct 19, 2023 | lux-magazine.com | Yasmin El-Rifae

Lux Issue 8 explores international approaches to abortion access. Read more dispatches from El Salvador, U.S. prisons, Croatia, and New York City. How do you get an abortion under occupation? For Palestinians, some of the barriers to reproductive care are very literal: checkpoints, committees, intelligence agencies. They are also ideological: Women deal with the violence of Israel as well as patriarchy within their own families, social groups, and political leadership.