Jailed in Egypt at 17, He Wrote to Survive and to Share His Long Ordeal
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Abdelrahman ElGendy envisioned the ending of his book would be inspiring, despite all the horrors he would have to recount.Starting at age 17, Mr. ElGendy spent six years and three months in squalid prisons in Egypt, and one way he survived, he said, was to imagine the memoir he would publish if he were ever freed.
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