Congratulations to COURAGE to WRITE & Director’s grantee Abdelrahman ElGendy! ElGendy’s memoir, Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming, is on the 2026 Longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. We could not be more proud to support Abdelrahman’s work.
Published on September 1st by Hogarth / Penguin Random House, Abdelrahman’s debut grapples, through the lens of a six-year political incarceration journey in Egypt, with what it means to inhabit a space designed to erase you—and insist on being.
“Huna is a reckoning with what it takes—and what it costs—to remain when erased, and with what endures, perhaps more faithfully, beyond hope.”
Visit Gendy’s website: www.abdelrahmanelgendy.com
Find Gendy on Instagram: @abdelrahman_elgendy95