{"id":10279,"date":"2020-05-04T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=10279"},"modified":"2020-05-06T13:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:27:22","slug":"youssef-rakha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/youssef-rakha\/","title":{"rendered":"Youssef Rakha"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4620\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10279-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/YoussefRakha.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/YoussefRakha.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/YoussefRakha.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10296 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Portrait-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Youssef Rakha<\/span><span class=\"gmail-s2\"> is an Egyptian novelist, essayist and poet who writes in both Arabic and English. Born, raised and based in Cairo, he graduated from Hull University, UK, in 1998, and has worked as a cultural journalist, literary translator and creative writing coach since then. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><span class=\"gmail-s2\">He is the founding editor of the bilingual literary website <a href=\"http:\/\/sultansseal.com\/\">\u0442\u043d\u0454 \u0455\u03c5\u2113\u0442\u03b1\u03b7\u2019\u0455 \u0455\u0454\u03b1\u2113: Cairo&#8217;s coolest cosmopolitan hotel<\/a>, named after his acclaimed first novel,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interlinkbooks.com\/product\/book-of-the-sultans-seal-the\/\">The Book of the Sultan&#8217;s Seal<\/a><\/i>. He can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/therakha.net\/\">therakha.net<\/a>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Sultans_Seal\">Twitter @Sultans_Seal<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/c\/YoussefRakha\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: large;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><span class=\"gmail-s2\">The poems he reads in the course of this conversation (translated by Robin Moger) can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/kgbbarlit.com\/content\/three-poems-2\">here<\/a><\/span>, and the essay he refers to in the context of the third poem\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/angels-trail-seven-swiss-encounters\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10297\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File1-671x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File1-671x1024.jpeg 671w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File1-197x300.jpeg 197w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File1-768x1171.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File1-1007x1536.jpeg 1007w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File1-696x1061.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File1-1068x1629.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File1-275x420.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File1.jpeg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10298\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2-696x1044.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2-1068x1602.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/File2.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/YoussefRakha.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing list Youssef Rakha is an Egyptian novelist, essayist and poet who writes in both Arabic and English. 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