You Have Not Yet Been Defeated

I want to take a moment and tell you about my friend, brother and mentor Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Alaa means alot to me on a personal level, and part of who I am today is because of him. The times we spent in the kitchen, living room and streets crafting ideas, organizing things, shaping possibilities, volunteering our tech skills to help whatever cause or group crossed our path along with redefining technologies with hopes and dreams. He is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology in powerful prose, an activist whose ideas represent a global generation which has only known struggle against a failing system, a public intellectual with the rare courage to offer personal, painful honesty, Alaa’s voice came to symbolize much of what was fresh, inspiring and revolutionary about the uprisings that have defined the last decade. 

I want to encourage you to order his book that just came out through collective efforts. You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: is a collection of his essays, social media posts and interviews from 2011 until the present. He has spent the majority of those years in prison, where many of the pieces were written. Together, they present not only a unique account from the frontline of a decade of global upheaval, but a catalogue of ideas about other futures those upheavals could yet reveal. From theories on technology and history to painful reflections on the meaning of prison, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated is a book about the importance of ideas, whatever their cost - and remember as you are reading those lines he is in prison. You can order the book in UK, Germany, France and many other countries from the following link as well as e-book: https://www.freedomfor.network/alaa