{"product_id":"huna-a-memoir-of-revolution","title":"Huna \/\/ A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming (Pre-order, Sep 1 2026)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping, deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance by a student protestor–turned–political prisoner in post-revolution Egypt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I will never be the same after reading\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHuna\u003c\/i\u003e.”—Javier Zamora\u003cbr\u003e“A beautifully written portrait of a radical political awakening.”—Hanif Abdurraqib\u003cbr\u003e“The work of a truly liberated writer.”—Fady Joudah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e’s 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2013, two years after the January 25 revolution, seventeen-year-old Abdelrahman ElGendy was a budding student activist in Cairo. Hope for a free Egypt had dissipated, and when that summer’s military coup unleashed unprecedented massacres of protesters, Abdelrahman didn’t hesitate—he joined the street movement. His father, fearing for his son’s safety, accompanied him to a mass demonstration. But minutes after they arrived, they were swept up in a brutal police crackdown, and their lives were shattered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCrushed inside a holding cell, Abdelrahman first heard the words of the Arab world’s most enduring protest song, “Sawfa Nabqa Huna”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Will Remain Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He wondered: If no one wanted to remain behind bars, what was the “here” they chose to inhabit?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbdelrahman would spend the next six years as a political prisoner chasing this Huna, shuffled, alongside his father, from jail cell, to pre-trial detention center, to The Scorpion, Egypt’s most infamous prison complex. As his body broke under the grind of incarceration with no end in sight, he turned to the only refuge left to him: the page. He earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering while imprisoned, read and wrote voraciously, and, through writing, bore witness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his remarkable debut, Abdelrahman offers not a promise of hope but a provocation. When the very things that can save you—tenderness, family, friendship, language—are used against you, how can you find the courage to love? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuna\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a reckoning with what it takes—and what it costs—to remain when erased, and of what endures, perhaps more faithfully, beyond hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAbdelrahman ElGendy\u003c\/b\u003e is an author and translator from Cairo. A winner of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award, he holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and his work appears in publications including \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry and prose translations from Arabic appear in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. ElGendy's work has received awards or fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, the de Groot Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Arab American National Museum. \u003ci\u003eHuna\u003c\/i\u003e is his debut memoir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Hogarth\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: September 01, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 368\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9798217153602\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 8.5 X 5.7 X 1.2 inches | 0.9 pounds\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Biography \u0026amp; Memoir, History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Abdelrahman ElGendy","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Sep 1 2026) Hardcover","offer_id":49131972493547,"sku":"9798217153602","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9798217153602.jpg?v=1785528871","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/huna-a-memoir-of-revolution","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}