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Abdelrahman ElGendy

Abdelrahman ElGendy is an author and translator from Cairo. Winner of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award in 2024, he holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and his work appears in publications including the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and Guernica. His poetry and prose translations from Arabic appear in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Literary Hub, Words Without Borders, 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. Huna is his debut.

Articles by Abdelrahman ElGendy

‘A Beginning of Love Stored in Time’: Abdelrahman ElGendy in Conversation with Fady Joudah
Upon the release of his seventh collection, Exhibit G, the prolific Palestinian American poet and translator Fady Joudah speaks to Egyptian author and translator Abdelrahman ElGendy – both longlisted for the National Book Awards this year – about the collection’s porous formal boundaries, the politics of the image in Gaza, practising versus performing solidarity, what it means to inherit land and language while both are in the midst of being incinerated, and much more in this rich, extensive interview.  
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