# Postmuslim

Postmuslim at Ibraaz, Wednesday 11 November 2026, 18:00.

- Venue: Ibraaz, Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London
- With: Youssef Rakha, Samia Rahman
- Go to page: https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/postmuslim

![Postmuslim](https://noky.io/images/a7c929bf211431297327c0136c60de2dc62c47eba52ea31006a8f1ef704b5225-2000.webp)

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.

## Dates

- Wednesday 11 November 18:00 — Ibraaz

Written by a model, sources: [ibraaz.org](https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/postmuslim)

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