Abdelrahman ElGendy was 17 when he and his father were arrested in Cairo two years after the 2011 Egyptian revolution for recording a protest. ElGendy spent six years as a political prisoner, including time in Egypt's notorious "Scorpion Prison", where he began writing. His memoir, Huna, recounts this experience. The book has been praised by Kirkus Reviews as a "heroic clarion call" for moral decency and liberation.
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Abdelrahman ElGendy, a 17-year-old at the time, was arrested in 2011 along with his father for recording a protest on the streets of Cairo after the Egyptian revolution two years earlier. The incident led to ElGendy's six years as a political prisoner, including time spent in Egypt's notorious "Scorpion Prison". While incarcerated, he turned to writing and later published a memoir called Huna, which has been praised by Kirkus Reviews for its powerful portrayal of an unjust prison sentence.
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Two years after the 2011 Egyptian revolution, then 17-year-old Abdelrahman ElGendy and his father were arrested for recording a protest on the streets of Cairo.
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ElGendy’s memoir recounts the six years he spent as a political prisoner, including in Egypt’s notorious “Scorpion Prison” where he turned to writing.
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“In ElGendy’s masterful hands,” Kirkus Reviews wrote, this deeply personal account of “an unjust prison sentence” becomes “a heroic clarion call for moral decency and liberation more broadly.”
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