Abdelrahman ElGendy
Writer at Freelance
Author of HUNA, forthcoming in 2026 from Hogarth / Penguin Random House.
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1 week ago |
thenation.com | Abdelrahman ElGendy
Politics / May 2, 2025 Why I Had to Flee the United StatesI was a political prisoner in Egypt. I didn’t want to become one again in America. Ad Policy US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, January 26, 2025. (Christopher Dilts / Bloomberg via Getty Images) I was a political prisoner for over six years in Egypt.
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1 month ago |
thebaffler.com | Wen Stephenson |Tarence Ray |Abdelrahman ElGendy
They came in broad daylight, the police and their bulldozers, on the afternoon of November 28, 2022. Their orders were to destroy the makeshift houses and evict the people living on public property along the banks of the Bagmati River in the Thapathali section of Kathmandu.
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1 month ago |
thebaffler.com | Bud Smith |Arielle Isack |Abdelrahman ElGendy
Out the bus window Sam saw guts gored cherry into the rumble strip. Seventh or eighth time since leaving the city. The mess reminded him of human meat he’d once seen dangling in a tree. Trembling deer peeked out from interrupted forest. He was on a trip to see an old roommate and illicit mentor, his aunt’s former mailman, Fox. Fox had been addicted to many things but now was hooked solely on the police scanner. Well that and visiting the grisly aftermath of local mutilations.
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Jan 25, 2025 |
poetrynw.org | Ahmed Douma |Abdelrahman ElGendy
Bells crackthe air, my chest. Children,right on time, string the alleyin ribbons, breathelight into a treefor Eid. Branchesbloom with the weightof yearning. But night, a coiledserpent—a sceneunspooling from an oldreel—setsits trap. And Santa Claus, old manwith a khakisack slung acrosshis back, arrives bearingjoy. The childrenglow,gather,utter wishes. He hands out —justly—bulletsto each chest. Dreamsspill down to earth, powderunder his militaryboot. The night, the alley, swimin red.
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Dec 19, 2024 |
lithub.com | Abdelrahman ElGendy
Growing up in Cairo, I’d heard a verse of the Quran—verse 55 of Surat Taha—ring in every room of mourning:Article continues after advertisementFrom earth We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you once more. The same verse looped in my head throughout Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise. Wherever I turned to look, I met—in various incarnations—the land, the soil, the earth.
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I had the honor of interviewing the dearest, inimitable @sarahaziza1 about her debut memoir, The Hollow Half, out today. We talked about ghourba, exile, and the wounds that open us to love. I hope Sarah's brilliance warms your heart and sharpens you, as it did me.
In “The Hollow Half,” @sarahaziza1 reckons with her Palestinian family’s history of exile and the generational trauma that shaped her. Abdelrahman ElGendy talks with the author about displacement, longing, and the fraught project of translation. https://t.co/HgnheFOR18
RT @Almanassa_AR: هكذا يصبح التطبيع شرطًا أساسيًا لتمرير القصة الفلسطينية في المنصات الكبرى؛ فما الذي يمكننا أن نقدمه لمن يسيرون في فضاءات…
بأسئلة التطبيع اشتعلت السوشيال ميديا بعد أن ذهبت جائزة الأوسكار لأفضل فيلم تسجيلي إلى فيلم لا أرض أخرى، فهل هذا الفوز انتصار، ومنصة عالمية لقضية الفلسطينيين، أم فعلُ تطبيعٍ لا يستحق الاحتفاء؟ مقالي اليوم على المنصة.
هكذا يصبح التطبيع شرطًا أساسيًا لتمرير القصة الفلسطينية في المنصات الكبرى؛ فما الذي يمكننا أن نقدمه لمن يسيرون في فضاءات ملغمة؟ ◀ لقراءة المقال كاملًا https://t.co/ZTGbprIdB8 #الخميس_الأول #كل_شهر #ثقافة #عبد_الرحمن_الجندي @El_Gendy_95 https://t.co/bzVtjq5TKr
