The occult in the modern Arab world is an endlessly rich topic. It brings together questions of modernity, religion, science, performance, and identity in an unusual but compelling sub-culture, populated with some fascinating and eccentric—if not always endeari..
Raphael Cormack
Raphael Cormack is Assistant Professor of Arabic at the University of Durham, UK. His first book was Midnight in Cairo (W.W. Norton, 2021) and his second book is Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age (W. W. Norton, 2025). He also works as a translator and has edited two collections of Arabic short stories translated into English—The Book of Khartoum (Comma Press, 2016) and The Book of Cairo (Comma Press, 2019).