Cullman Center Institute for Teachers: The Literature of Fact: A Non-Fiction Writing Workshop with Yasmine El Rashidi

The Literature of Fact: A Non-Fiction Writing Workshop  with Yasmine El Rashidi

Please note: This workshop is during the public school spring break.

The best literary journalism combines rigorous reporting, fluid writing, and a strong concept. In this workshop we will examine the key building blocks of long-form journalism, with a focus on the particular skills required when writing about events as they are happening (e.g., Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Arab Spring). Participants will be given short writing exercises during the day.

Yasmine El Rashidi is the Cairo-based author of The Battle for Egypt, Dispatches from the Revolution. She writes on politics and culture for The New York Review of Books, and is a contributing editor of the Middle East arts and culture journal Bidoun. Her essays have been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading, The New York Review Abroad, and Writing Revolution. At the Cullman Center she is at work on a book about how Egypt's defeat in 1967 gave rise to the country's avant-garde culture.

This seminar is not open to the public. It is only for teachers who have applied and been accepted into the class.