Postmuslim, a talk with Youssef Rakha.

A talk celebrating the publication of Postmuslim, Youssef Rakha's book tracing his journey from teenage years in Cairo, where he lost his faith, to his arrival in Britain as a young student, and his growing disenchantment with the politics of both places over three decades. Youssef Rakha will be joined by Samia Rahman for a conversation about writing a self that refuses to settle into the idealised, the caricatured, the essentialised. Moving between personal, political, and cultural histories, they will ask what it means to embrace the fullness of a Muslim identity in the twenty-first century, and whether a self can be made from multiple cultures that inspire as much ambivalence as belonging.