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Abdelrahman ElGendy is an author and translator from Cairo. His memoir, HUNA, is forthcoming in 2026 from Hogarth, Penguin Random House. A winner of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award, ElGendy holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and his work appears in publications including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and Guernica. His poetry and prose translations from Arabic appear in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Literary Hub, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. ElGendy’s work has received awards or fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, the de Groot Foundation, the Steinbeck Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Arab American National Museum. You can find him at www.abdelrahmanelgendy.com and on Instagram @abdelrahman_elgendy95
  • We See You: The Encampment as a Radical Reimagining

    We See You: The Encampment as a Radical Reimagining

    Abdelrahman ElGendy writes about The Encampment—from Egypt’s Tahrir Square to the current Palestine solidarity encampments spreading across US campuses—as sites of radical love. As embodying revolutionary ways of seeing and being, ways which threaten the rotten status quo.