Abdelrahman ElGendy

Abdelrahman ElGendy is an author and translator from Cairo. His memoir  Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming  is a finalist for the 2026 National Book Award. A winner of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award, ElGendy holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and an MSc in Human Rights and Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work appears in TIME, The Washington Post,  The Nation, The Baffler, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. His poetry and prose translations from Arabic appear in Poetry Northwest, Literary Hub, and Words Without Borders, among others.(Updated 10/2026)