Congratulations to COURAGE to WRITE & Director’s grantee Abdelrahman ElGendy! ElGendy’s memoir, Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming, is a 2026 Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. We could not be more proud to support Abdelrahman’s work.
“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.”
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.
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