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Karim Alrawi

Karim Alrawi is a novelist and playwright. His international awards include the John Whiting Award for British and Commonwealth Writers, the Samuel Beckett Award for the Performing Arts, the HarperCollins Best New Fiction Prize, and the Wallace Stegner Award for the Arts. He was in Egypt during the Arab Spring assisting at the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights and supporting the international media reporting on the uprising.

A Time of Monsters: On Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated”

Karim Alrawi is stirred by the prison writings of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, collected in “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated,” translated by an anonymous collective....