Youssef Cohen was born in Cairo, Egypt. Like most Egyptian Jews, he left Cairo after the Suez War and lived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, until 1973, when he moved to the United States. He...voir plusYoussef Cohen was born in Cairo, Egypt. Like most Egyptian Jews, he left Cairo after the Suez War and lived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, until 1973, when he moved to the United States. He has been teaching at New York University since 1988 and lives in Greenwich Village with his family.voir moins