Abdelrahman ElGendy is an Egyptian writer and translator from Cairo, and the Literary Editor of The Markaz Review. He is the author of Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming; a finalist for the National Book Award. 

 

Abdelrahman's work examines state violence, empire, and exile, attending to the entanglements of local and global oppressions and the solidarities that emerge across them.

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A Samir Kassir Freedom of the Press Award winner, Abdelrahman holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh and an MSc in Human Rights and Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. While in prison between 2013 and 2020, he started and earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Ain Shams University.​

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Abdelrahman's writing appears in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The Baffler, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. His poetry and prose translations from Arabic appear in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Literary Hub, AGNI, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, Best of the Net, and Deep Vellum's Best Literary Translations.

 

Abdelrahman's work has received awards or fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the de Groot Foundation, the Steinbeck fellowship, The Society of Authors, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, among others. He is a three-time finalist for the Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism.​

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Abdelrahman is represented by Jin Auh of the Wylie Agency.