His latest book, The Illusion of Return, published in 2007, is his first novel written in English. In 2004, he co-authored a book with Israeli author Etgar Keret, called Gaza Blues: Different Stories. He writes in both Arabic and English, and some of his work has been translated into German, Italian, Greek and Norwegian.
In 2000, he was granted British citizenship. He emigrated to Cyprus in 1989 and since 1990 has been living in London, where he studied philosophy and gained a Master of Arts degree from the University of London.
El-Youssef's father is a Sunni and his mother is from the only Shia Palestinian family. Samir El-Youssef ( Arabic: سمير اليوسف) (born 1965) is a Palestinian-British writer and critic, who was born in Rashidieh, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, where he lived until he was ten, before moving to Sidon.
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