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Abdelrahman ElGendy is an Egyptian writer and public speaker from Cairo, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A former six-year political prisoner in Egypt, he was detained from 2013 to 2020. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Early Life and Education

ElGendy was arrested at the age of 17 in Cairo during a protest against the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état in Egypt, ^{[2] [1] [3]} was mis-tried as an adult instead of a minor, ^{[1] [2] [3]} and sentenced to 15 years in a maximum-security prison. ^{[1] [2] [3]} ElGendy spent over six years in prison, where he earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Ain Shams University. ^[1] He was retried as a minor and released in January 2020. ^{[1] [2] [3]} In 2025, he graduates with an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. ^{[4] [5] [1]}

Career

ElGendy's writing focuses on political and social issues of the Middle East and the Arab diasporic experience. ^{[6] [7] [8]} His writing appears in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Guernica, AGNI, Mizna, Mada Masr, and elsewhere. ElGendy is the recipient of the EU-presented Samir Kassir Freedom of Press Award, ^{[9] [10] [11]} the Courage to Write Award by the de Groot Foundation, ^[12] the Steinbeck Fellowship by San Jose State University, ^[13] and the Heinz Fellowship by the University of Pittsburgh's Global Studies Center. ^[14]

Advocacy and Public Speaking

ElGendy advocates for Egyptian political prisoners locally and in the US. ^[15] His speaking engagements include appearances at Harvard University, ^[16] the University of Pennsylvania, ^[17] the University of Pittsburgh, ^[18] and elsewhere.

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