Krista

“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

“That opposition is politically and ideologically diverse. Alaa and his comrades are part of the left, internationalist, anti-sectarian, youth-led movement that is part of a global confrontation with transnational capital and its national organs, a movement that has seen expressions from Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street. And because this strain has refused to fully surrender its hopes for a liberated Egypt, it too has faced the wrath of the vengeful regime of General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.”
― Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

“Alaa had a vision for how the movement that found its wings in Tahrir Square could fan out across the country and engage in ‘intensive discussions with thousands of citizens’ to democratically develop a vision for their collective future.”
― Alaa Abd El-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

“If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea