Abdelrahman ElGendy is an Egyptian writer who was a political prisoner in Egypt for more than six years. His writing engages with counternarratives of history as a form of resistance to erasure. His work appears in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, AGNI, Truthout, Mada Masr, and elsewhere. ElGendy is a Dietrich Fellow in the University of Pittsburgh’s nonfiction writing MFA program, and a Heinz Fellow at Pitt's Global Studies Center. His work has received awards or fellowships from the Logan Nonfiction Program, Tin House Workshop, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He was a finalist for the 2021 and 2023 Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism.