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Press and Interviews
2026
For Love, Which Is to Say, for Revolution, Los Angeles Review of Books
2026
The Ferocious Capacity to Love: HUNA Book Review, Everything is Political (English)
2026
Reading Huna in Delhi, The Jamira Review (English)
2026
In Egypt, leaving prison does not mean escaping the security state: Huna Book Review, Middle East Eye (English)
2026
Abdelrahman ElGendy, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, and Delali Adjoa Longlisted for the 2026 National Book Awards, Brittle Paper (English)
2026
Litterateur as Saboteur: Review of HUNA, Mizna (English)
2026
A memoir about incarceration, exile, and writing against the limits of captivity, BOMB Magazine (English)
2026
Becoming Free Behind Bars: A Review of Huna, The Markaz Review (English)
2026
A prison memoir of the Egyptian revolution, Semafor (English)
2026
Abdelrahman ElGendy Learned to Love Reading through Mickey Mouse, Debutiful (English)
2026
Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell, Literary Hub (English)
2026
The Astonishing Odyssey of a Teenage Political Prisoner, Nonfiction Nut (English)
2025
Has Trump Succeeded in Normalising American Autocracy?, The Guardian (English)
2024
The Initiative of Families of Egypt’s Political Prisoners—Daraj Media (English)
2024
Samir Kassir Award 2024, Interview with Abdelrahman ElGendy—Al-Rawiya (English)
2024
Egyptian writer Abdelrahman ElGendy speaks at Penn about political activism and imprisonment—The Daily Pennsylvanian (English)
2023
Jailed in Egypt at 17, He Wrote to Survive and to Share His Long Ordeal (Profile)—The New York Times (English)
2023
Daily Africa Podcast—BBC (English)
2023
Ramadan Bila Saggan—Hafiz AlMirazi (Arabic)
2022
#FreeThemAll Campaign—The Freedom Initiative (English)
2023
Frontline of Freedom—Evan Mawarire (English)
2022
Podcast 11—Solafa Magdy (Arabic)
2022
EL PAÍS newspaper — Marc Español (Spanish)
2021
Refugee Radio — Stephen Silverwood (English)
2021
Bi H'ob — Heba Afifi (Arabic)
2021
Cairo in Exile Podcast — Marlyn Tadros (English)
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