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This book is not so much edited as curated, by a team of Egyptian and international scholars, human rights defenders, and activists who came together in support of prisoners of conscience in Egypt.

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.

I was first drawn to the idea of writing about prisons and prisoners in Iran because, like many Iranians, I have spent my whole life hearing stories about incarceration from friends and family members who have had encounters—some quite brutal—with Iran’s prison..

The book is largely comprised of articles I wrote and published between 2018 and 2021 on various platforms, including 

For over a century, Zionist settler colonialism has continuously committed crimes of genocide against Palestinians. The Zionist project was founded on the concept of annihilating the Palestinian people and developed its colonial tools of violence as a structural piece of its colonial project fra..

In Palestine, the unyielding violence of settler colonialism is everywhere. The prison complex has always been a cornerstone of this violence, but over the course of the last three months, as with every other tool of genocidal violence, this has intensified. In this teach-in, our speakers will d..

Before 7 October 2023, Israel was holding 5,200 Palestinian political prisoners in its jails. This included 170 children and 1,264 administrative detainees held without trial or charge. Since 7 October, Israel has escalated its raids across Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank, arrest..

On 18 September 2023, the United States and Iran exchanged a total of ten prisoners as part of a deal in which Washington additionally provided sanctions waivers to enable South Korea to transfer payment for oil it had previously purchased from Iran into restricted accounts in Qatar. Mouin Rabba..

Join us on Wednesday, 26 July for a discussion about Israel’s carceral regime with United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967, Francesca Albanese and Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani. This episode of Connections ..

Join us on Wednesday, 26 July for a discussion about Israel’s carceral regime with United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967, Francesca Albanese ..

Bahareh Hedayat is a prominent Iranian political activist and prisoner. She was arrested on 11 October 2022, amid the revolutionary uprising following the killing of Jina Amini by the Islamic Republic “Morality Police.” A well-known activist involved in the campaign to collect one million signat..

Juliette Elmir Sa’adeh was the first woman political prisoner in post Sykes-Picot Syria. This fact alone was reason enough to translate her memoirs. Indeed, one of my colleagues exclaimed “this is the stuff of movies” when I shared some pages of the memoirs wit..

In May 2021, sparked by the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah and the bombings of Gaza, Palestinians overcame the borders and boundaries separating them and rose up in the “Unity Uprising”. In just five days, between May 9 and 14, over 700 Palestinian citizens of Israel were detained, ma..

The eight articles below – previously published by Jadaliyya – cover a wide range of matters related to Palestinian imprisonment. At the heart of each of these articles is an examination of lived experiences and the impact of prisoners on the Palestinian community at large. From hunger ..

I write from the parallel time where space is still. In the parallel time, we refer to your units for measuring time (such as minutes and hours) only when our time and space collide in the visitation rooms. This is the only moment when we have to use your temporal units. In any case, these are t..

Palestinians across the world watched in awe and jubilation as news spread of the Gilboa prison escape on September 6, 2021, when six incarcerated Palestinian men used a spoon (as well as broken dishes and pans) to dig a tunnel out of one of Israel’s most “secure” prisons, manifesting the unimag..

In the early morning hours of 6 September 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped the highly secure walls of Gilboa prison through a tunnel they dug under their cell’s bathroom. While Palestinian prisoners’ history is filled with other episodes of prison breaks, this event was uniquely distinct...

Prisoner of the Infidels is the first-person account of a young Ottoman soldier who, taken prisoner a few years after the failed siege of Vienna in 1683, spent more than a decade as an enslaved captive in Christian Europe.

Among the thousands of Kurdish political prisoners in Turkish colonial prisons, Aysel Tuğluk, who has been in captivity for nearly five years, has been sick and

In his memoirs on his time in Kober prison, the late Sudanese historian and Marxist Mohammed Saeed Gaddal recalls being alerted by urgent shouts from fellow inmates that a statement from Major Hashim Atta, leader of what would come to be known as the July 1971 communist coup (elsewhere dubbed "c..