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 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 catalogue of ideas about other futures those upheavals could yet
reveal. From theories on technology and history to profound
reflections on the meaning of prison, You Have Not Yet Been
Defeated is a book about the importance of ideas, whatever their
cost.