Meet Abdelrahman ElGendy, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE grantee working on his memoir, We Write on Walls.
We Write on Walls is a memoir that 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.
Abdelrahman ElGendy is an Egyptian writer, activist, and translator. His writing engages with counter-narratives and historical erasure. His work has received fellowships from Logan Nonfiction Program, Tin House Workshop, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
An exciting update from Abdelrahman: He was recently named a Steinbeck Fellow and won the opinion piece category of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press.
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