Yasmin El-Rifae is a writer and editor. She works with Mada Masr in Cairo, a progressive Egyptian newsmagazine, and is a co-producer of the Palestine Festival of Literature. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, Lux, LitHub, and Guernica. This is her first book.
This book is one of the most powerful reports on rescue work done in a revolutionary war zone that I have ever read; and the fact that it is work done by women on behalf of other women who've been sexually harassed (to put it mildly) not by the enemy but by their fellow revolutionaries makes it all the more gripping. I wish Radius a long life, with dazzling reviews and an ever-increasing readership. -- Vivian Gornick, author of <i>Taking a Long Look</i>