You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
Author: Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Subject: human rights;political science;social justice;civil rights;geopolitics;government;political philosophy;civil disobedience;injustice;civil rights movement;political books;justice;politics;middle east;political science books;world politics;international politics;international human rights;parenting;essays;short stories;health;sociology;buddhism;social;self help;psychology;family;philosophy;spirituality;feminism;war;law;how to;marriage;culture;biography;love;economics;social science;pregnancy
9781644212462
Powerful ideas of protest and freedom of expression from the world-renowned Egyptian political prisoner and activist collected in English for the first time. With a foreword by Naomi Klein.
"The text you are holding is living history." — Naomi Klein, from the foreword
Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology in powerful prose, an activist whose ideas represent a global generation which has only known struggle against a failing system, a public intellectual with the rare courage to offer personal, painful honesty, Alaa’s written voice came to symbolize much of what was fresh, inspiring and revolutionary about the uprisings that have defined the last decade. Collected here for the first time in English are a selection of his essays, social media...
"The text you are holding is living history." — Naomi Klein, from the foreword
Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology in powerful prose, an activist whose ideas represent a global generation which has only known struggle against a failing system, a public intellectual with the rare courage to offer personal, painful honesty, Alaa’s written voice came to symbolize much of what was fresh, inspiring and revolutionary about the uprisings that have defined the last decade. Collected here for the first time in English are a selection of his essays, social media...