About the Book: Huna
A gripping, deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance. In
2013, seventeen-year-old Abdelrahman ElGendy was a budding student activist in
Cairo. Two years after the January 25 revolution, hope for a free Egypt had
dissipated; when that summers military coup unleashed unprecedented massacres of
protesters, Abdelrahman didnt hesitate—he joined the street movement. His
father, fearing for his sons safety, accompanied him to a mass demonstration.
But minutes after they arrived, they were swept up in a brutal police crackdown,
and their lives were shattered. Crushed inside a holding cell, Abdelrahman first
heard the words of the Arab worlds most enduring protest