Surviving Sisi's Egypt w/ Abdelrahman ElGendy (E227)

<p>One thing you’ll get from this episode - and from reading Abdelrahman’s memoir <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799613/huna-by-abdelrahman-elgendy/" target="_blank"><em>Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming</em></a><em> </em>recounting his six years in Sisi’s nightmarish prisons in Egypt - is a lot of empathy, not just towards what he went through, what others like <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/16/egypt-prison-friend-memory/" target="_blank">Ayman Moussa</a> - who was 19 when arrested in 2013 and is still serving a 15-year sentence - are still going through, but the sense that Abdelrahman himself remains empathetic, and dare I say hopeful. I was really struck by not only how eloquent he is, but how he’s able to navigate extremely difficult topics that must still haunt him with dignity. You’ll see what I mean in this episode.</p><p>This includes a reading of Huna by Abdelrahman himself.</p><p>This is part of a two-parter on the Egyptian dictatorship led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Check out <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/imprisoning-a-revolution/paper" target="_blank">Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt&#39;s Incarcerated</a> by Collective Antigone with a forward by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong&#39;o.</p><p>Abdelrahman&#39;s Recs:</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undercommons" target="_blank">The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning &amp; Black Study</a> by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/467924/poetics-of-relation-by-glissant-edouard/9780241733110" target="_blank">Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/product/from-the-clinic-to-the-streets/" target="_blank">From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures</a> by Lara Sheehi</p></li></ul><p>Admin: <a href="https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/" target="_blank"><u>You can still register for my November class</u></a>, the 5th and last class on modern Lebanese history and politics before I take a long break from it all. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about Lebanon and why it matters so much to today’s geopolitical nightmare, I think you’ll benefit from taking this class. </p><p>For non-Patreons, I wanna make the case for joining the Patreon of TFTT at <a href="https://Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes" target="_blank"><u>Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes</u></a></p><p>Not only do you get early a