Emissaries, and other short stories
In these Cairo-focused stories written at the height of the Arab Spring, the reader is led by a colorful cast of characters through a hypnagogic urbanscape pulsating with the spectres of post-political Islam and failed revolution.


YOUSSEF RAKHA
Youssef Rakha is an Egyptian writer and poet. His first two novels, The Book of the Sultan’s Seal and The Crocodiles, appeared in English in early 2015 through Interlink and Seven Stories Press, respectively. Also a cultural journalist, literary translator, and creative writing coach, he is the founding editor of sultansseal.com. He can be found online at therakha.net and on Twitter @Sultans_Seal. Barra and Zaman, an essay in 200 numbered paragraphs on the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel Salam's 1969 classic The Mummy, is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Rakha's first English novel, The Dissenters, is set for publication by Graywolf Press in 2025.

BARA DIGITAL
Bara Digital is a digital publishing imprint of Barakunan with a focus on audio and digital text.
Episode 1 features Savyasachi Anju Prabir presenting his personal essay, My Room as a Cosmopolis, written between Berlin and Goa during the early lockdowns of 2020 and 2021.
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EPISODE 1

My Room as a Cosmopolis (Audiobook)
Narrated by the author himself, Savyasachi Anju Prabir presents, My Room as a Cosmopolis: Spatial and Temporal Third Spaces [within the confines of four walls], a textual and visual exploration of identity and belonging rooted in India and growing beyond South Asia.
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