Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution (2022) - Yasmin El-Rifae

Verso Press. CN: mention of SA.

Radius documents Opantish, a feminist collective combatting organised sexual assaults in Tahrir Square, months after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. El-Rifae’s dramatisations of her and her comrades’ experiences lend astonishing energy to the moral integrity and ferocious solidarity of Opantish’s young organisers, and the toll it exacted. The pain of witnessing a revolutionary moment fall into reactionary violence is visceral.

Radius is remarkable in how it handles aftermaths, friendships and fallouts. This is history at its most potent: comprised not of diplomats and nations but messy human relationships, written by its actors on the ground. No parliaments but in living rooms.