Abdelrahman ElGendy (’24) is an Egyptian writer and translator from Cairo, and the Literary Editor of The Markaz Review. He is the author of Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming; longlisted for the National Book Award. His writing appears in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The Baffler, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. His poetry and prose translations from Arabic appear in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Literary Hub, AGNI, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, Best of the Net, and Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations. A Samir Kassir Freedom of the Press Award winner, Abdelrahman holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh and an MSc in Human Rights and Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. While in prison between 2013 and 2020, he started and earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Ain Shams University.