Abdelrahman ElGendy

Nov 14, 2024 | themarkaz.org | Abdelrahman ElGendy

Everyday of the year — not just on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer — we must now ask ourselves why western governments would bother raising a major outcry about the countless writers, journalists and even poets serving prison terms in many countries, when they’ve done nothing to stop Israel’s murderous campaign against Palestinian and Lebanese journalists?* Abdelrahman ElGendy As the keynote speech wrapped up in the grand banquet hall of a five-star hotel in San Diego, one of the organizers...

Sep 30, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Abdelrahman ElGendy

Abdelrahman ElGendy, an Egyptian writer and translator, is a Steinbeck fellow at San José State University. Alaa Abdel Fattah, the Egyptian writer who is arguably the most well-known political prisoner in the Arab world, was set to complete his five-year prison term on Sunday. But the Egyptian regime, as always, had other plans. Alaa was arrested in 2019 and convicted of spreading “false news undermining national security” two years later. It was hardly his first run-in with authorities.

Mar 18, 2024 | agnionline.bu.edu | Abdelrahman ElGendy |S. Brook Corfman |Emilia Phillips |Hannah Vander Hart

[…] by Fady Joudah. 100 pages. Milkweed Editions, 2024. $16.00.   Dear Fady,[…] haunts me. It has haunted me since I first read it, bending over my desk near midnight, bathed in the amber glow of my lamp, and beside me, a cold, forgotten cup of cinnamon tea. The collection’s title, […], sets the tone: this is a text designed to disarm and unsettle. To embody the erased, the unsayable. The reader is here to do the labor of listening: Listen to the Palestinian speak. Equally, listen to their silence.

Mar 13, 2024 | mizna.org | George Abraham |Abdelrahman ElGendy

On Execution Six months into the genocide in Gaza, the latest acceleration of ethnic cleansing and settlement in Palestine, and this is where US literature and media institutions have left us: an organization we had considered to be an ally published an essay amounting to settler apologia and is, as a result, imploding before our eyes as more than thirty principled volunteer staff members have resigned in solidarity; PEN America, which in early February dragged beloved Palestinian author...

Mar 3, 2024 | outspokenldn.com | Abdelrahman ElGendy

Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens. Fady says, on writing […]:“I wrote the bulk of this collection between October and December of 2023. I could not imagine a title for the book or for most of its poems in a time of extermination. The text of the poems already says enough. The text also betrays a necessary silence. And yet the silence in the book is the silence that the reader, listener, recipient should practice.