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The Palestinian Feminist Collective proudly presents: YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED
May 7, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
A book talk with Egyptian revolutionary, Sanaa Seif & renowned, independent Egyptian journalist, Sharif Abdel Kouddous
The PFC is honored to invite you to a virtual book talk with Egyptian revolutionary, Sanaa Seif, former political prisoner and sister of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, as she discusses his long anticipated book, “YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED” in conversation with renowned, independent Egyptian journalist, Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
This is a solidarity event with political prisoners in Egypt in affirmation of the power of feminist organizing in the face of repression and counter-revolution in Egypt. The PFC stands with our Egyptian comrades and people across the globe facing the heteropatriarchal, imperial systems of militarized policing, prisons, and repression.
YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED embodies 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 forward
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 that 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 is a selection of his essays, social media posts, and interviews from 2011 until the present. He has spent the majority of those years in prison, where many of these pieces were written. Together, they present not only a unique account from the frontline of a decade of global upheaval but a catalog of ideas about other futures those upheavals could yet reveal.