Alaa Abd el-Fattah 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 written voice came to symbolize much
of what was fresh, inspiring and revolutionary about the uprisings that
have defined the last decade. Collected here for the first time in
English are a selection 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 these 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 profound
reflections on the meaning of prison, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
is a book about the importance of ideas, whatever their cost.
