Chronicle of a Last Summer: Yasmine El Rashidi and Robyn Creswell in New York

Yasmine El Rashidi and Robyn Creswell discuss, Chronicle of a Last Summer, El Rashidi’s novel about contemporary political strife in Cairo, Egypt, as seen through the experience of a young woman over the course of three summers, from childhood to adulthood.

Yasmine El Rashidi is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and an editor of the Middle East arts and culture quarterly Bidoun. She completed Chronicle of a Last Summer while in residence at the Cullman Center inn 2015-16.

Robyn Creswell is the poetry editor at The Paris Review and assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Yale. His translation from Arabic of The Tongue of Adamby Abdelfattah Kilito will be published by New Directions in November. He was a Fellow at the Cullman Center in 2011-12.