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Alaa Abd El-Fattah

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in Cairo, Egypt

November 20, 1981

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Average rating: 4.56 · 388 ratings · 70 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Writings 2011-2021 by Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Naomi Klein (Foreword) 4.55 avg rating — 353 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by Ahdaf Soueif (Editor), Omar Robert Hamilton (Editor), J.M. Coetzee (Contributor) 4.52 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ihr seid noch nicht besiegt: Ausgewählte Texte 2011-2021 by Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Naomi Klein (Foreword), Utku Mogultay (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Alaa Abd El-Fattah (?)

“The blame lies with the perpetrators—not with the millions of overwhelmingly unarmed activists who tried to stop these juggernauts. Yet Alaa’s model here should remind us, wherever we reside, that though it may not be our fault, it is our duty to make time in our organizing and theorizing to confront our defeats. Not to wallow, but because such confrontations are our only hope of seeing the new terrain of struggle clearly.”
― Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

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“Sure, it would be nice if the giants of Silicon Valley were dedicated to protecting and advancing human rights, but corporations are not really likely to do any of that.’ What they are built to do is monetize every single transaction . . . I don’t expect either Twitter or Facebook or the mobile companies to change their business models just for activists, so that is not going to happen . . . What needs to happen is a revolution. What needs to happen is a complete change in the order of things, so that we are making these”
― Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

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“Still, while refusing the idea of prison as metaphor, he is, throughout, preoccupied with the ways technically free people are nonetheless confined and entrapped—by black box algorithms and, more profoundly, by the way capitalist logics constrain imaginations, preventing contemporary movements from”
― Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

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