Youssef Rakha

Youssef Rakha is a Cairo-based novelist, poet and essayist who writes in Arabic and English. His novels include "The Book of the Sultan's Seal" (2011), "The Crocodiles" (2013), which have been translated into English, and "Paulo" (2016), which won the Sawiris Award. He was born in Cairo as "the only child of a disillusioned communist and a woman who struggled against incredible odds to go to university." "The Dissenters" (2025) is his first novel written in English.