Alaa Ahmed Seif Abd el-Fattah's You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, with Sanaa Seif & Sharif Abdel Kouddous

<p>SWANA Region Radio collective members David Lloyd and Hamoud Salhi discuss <a href="https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4410-you-have-not-yet-been-defeated" target="_blank"><em>You Have Not Yet Been Defeated</em></a>, the recently published collection of writings by Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the Egyptian revolutionary activist, blogger, and essayist, who has spent the last ten years, since the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, in prison or in the near-carceral conditions of supervised probation. We speak with Alaa’s sister, Sanaa Seif, also a political activist who has been imprisoned several times, and with Sharif Abdel Kouddous, an independent journalist based in Cairo. Listeners wishing to help in freeing Alaa can get information at <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/free-alaa/#what-you-can-do" target="_blank">https://www.accessnow.org/free-alaa/#what-you-can-do</a></p> <p><strong>Alaa Ahmed Seif Abd el-Fattah</strong>&nbsp;is &nbsp;arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the &nbsp;Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of &nbsp;2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology &nbsp;in powerful prose, an activist whose ideas represent a global generation &nbsp;which has only known struggle against a failing system, a public &nbsp;intellectual with the rare courage to offer personal, painful honesty, &nbsp;Alaa’s written voice came to symbolize much of what was fresh, &nbsp;inspiring, and revolutionary about the uprisings that have defined the &nbsp;last decade. Collected in&nbsp;<em>You Have Not Yet Been Defeated</em>&nbsp;for &nbsp;the first time in English are a selection of his essays, social media &nbsp;posts and interviews from 2011 until the present. He has spent most of &nbsp;those years in prison, where many of these pieces were written. &nbsp;Together, they present not only a unique account from the frontline of a &nbsp;decade of global upheaval, but a catalogue of ideas about other futures &nbsp;those upheavals could yet reveal.</p