You Have Not Yet Been Defeated

What does it take to hold onto hope and fight for your ideals, even from behind bars? Discover the unbreakable spirit of a generation's leading voice, who continues to challenge power and inspire action, even while imprisoned for his beliefs. Through his powerful essays, interviews, and social media posts, you’ll witness the Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath through the eyes of a key dissident. You'll learn how to find courage in despair, why technology is a double-edged sword for activism, and what it truly means to fight for a future you may never see.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah is an Egyptian-British writer, technologist, and political prisoner of conscience, internationally recognized as a leading voice of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. From a family of prominent human rights activists, he has spent most of the past decade behind bars for his advocacy for democracy and free speech. His collected writings, smuggled from his prison cell, offer a powerful, firsthand account of the ongoing struggle for freedom in the face of authoritarianism, revealing a profound and resilient human spirit.