Ahmed Samir Santawy

The writer recounts his imprisonment from February 2021 to July 2022 in Egypt’s prisons, where incarceration reshaped his life. This book is an attempt to reclaim and narrate the experience, weaving together scattered fragments in which the private intertwines with the political and the legal, the personal with the collective. Some of these fragments take a poetic form, while others include police, national security, and court reports as well as analyses and reflections about the logic of power and the logic of resisting it, diaries written inside the prison, and stories about what happened there.