Raphael Cormack is a British writer and scholar of the Arab world and Assistant Professor of Arabic at Durham University.
He obtained his PhD in Egyptian Theatre from the University of Edinburgh.
He has written essays on Arab culture in outlets such as the LRB, Prospect and the TLS.
Cormack is the author of Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s, an exploration of Cairo popular culture through personalities such as Rose Al-Youssef, Mounira al-Mahdiyya and Oum Kalthoum, and of Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult, a biography of Dr. Dahesh and the traveling Armenian fakir who inspired him.
He is the son of Robin Cormack and historian Mary Beard.