Yasmine El Rashidi

Dec 12, 2024 | houseandgarden.co.uk | Yasmine El Rashidi

The Pharaohs' worshipping of their gods became the ongoing theme of our trip, as we visited the temples among the sands, dunes and verdant fields on either side of the Nile. Immense blocks of limestone and granite soar high in magnificent structures, all intricately chiselled with friezes depicting scenes of the mysterious ancient civilisation that seemed to have a knowledge of science and engineering beyond its time. Not a square centimetre is left unadorned.

Nov 13, 2024 | nytimes.com | Yasmine El Rashidi

In the middle of the Nile Delta, about 50 miles north of Cairo, the small town of Shubra Bilulah is encircled by roughly 300 acres of flower farms. The majority of them are growing Jasminum grandiflorum, a lacy vine with delicate white flowers that typically bloom between June and December and yield 90 percent of the country's jasmine crop: roughly 2,500 tons of blossoms a year.

Aug 16, 2024 | frieze.com | Sophia Al Maria |Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili |Negar Azimi |Anna Della Subin |Antonia Carver |Yasmine El Rashidi | +9 more

Lisa Farjam Bidoun was really born out of a reaction to 9/11 and the subsequent rise of Islamophobia and sensationalist Western media coverage of the Middle East. In the arts specifically, media coverage of the region was always quite superficial. I was interested in building bridges between cities like Cairo and Beirut, and working with the communities of writers and artists who lived there. Initially, Bidoun grew out of conversations between myself and my closest friend, Sunny Rahbar.

May 15, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Yasmine El Rashidi |Kristina Rapacki

The New Administrative Capital in Egypt, built 60km east of Tahrir Square, excludes the public it purports to serveIt is as difficult to reach the New Administrative Capital (NAC) as it is to get around it once you are there, making the US$68 billion of debt and sky‑high inflation it has cost the Egyptian economy all the harder to justify.

Feb 20, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Nimah Mazaheri |Lisa Anderson |Andrew Hanna |Yasmine El Rashidi

In This Review In This Review Hydrocarbon Citizens: How Oil Transformed People and Politics in the Middle EastAnalysts have long attributed the autocracy that prevails in Middle Eastern oil-producing countries to an “authoritarian bargain”: in return for generous government-sponsored benefits, the people acquiesce to autocracy.