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Collage of five diverse artworks from the Hammer Museum Collections side by side. From left to right: 1) Contemporary painting of two embracing figures with surreal elements. 2) Post-impressionist style painting of trees with vibrant blues and greens. 3) Black and white illustration of a face with intricate patterns. 4) Japanese woodblock print style image of a figure in a checkered robe. 5) Photograph of a couple dancing, the woman in a black dress and the man in white

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Yasmine El Rashidi

2012

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Yasmine El Rashidi was in Los Angeles for a residency until early May 2012 working on two books. The Successors is a literary nonfiction biography and memoir of her generation (Random House US/Penguin UK, 2014). Her other book is a gallery-commissioned publication that took the form of a series of edited and excerpted interviews with and around the Egyptian diaspora in Los Angeles. Commissioned by Townhouse Gallery, the publication accompanied an exhibition in Cairo that examined the role and potential of the arts during times of political upheaval.

Biography

Yasmine El Rashidi (b.1977, Egypt) is a Cairo-based writer. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, a contributing editor to the arts and culture quarterly Bidoun, and the author of The Battle for Egypt (Random House/NYRB 2011). Her writing has also appeared in publications including the London Review of Books, Aperture, The Guardian, Monocle, Le Monde Diplomatique, Index on Censorship, Ms., and the Arabic literary journal Weghat Nazar. She was formerly a writer-in-residence at Townhouse Gallery and will be a 2012-13 fellow at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts.

The Hammer Museum's Artist Residency Program was initiated with funding from the Nimoy Foundation and is supported through a significant grant from the James Irvine Foundation.