Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution

A haunting, intimate account of the women and men who built a feminist revolution in the middle of the Arab Spring

During the final months of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, a group of activists came together to intervene in the mob sexual assaults recurring amid the ongoing protests of Tahrir Square. The organization was called Opantish, and Yasmin El-Rifae was one of the organizers. This is her surgical, searching, and harrowing account of frontline battles, back-alley escapes, supply lines,...