For the NYT, I wrote about Alaa, the Egyptian prison, and the dark future Egypt is heading towards : Opinion | To Understand Egypt, Meet the Political Prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah – The New York Times

Shortly after I arrived at Tora Maximum Security Prison in Cairo, a prisoner with a trendy haircut and glasses entered my cell, handed me a plastic bag and whispered, “From Alaa.” Inside the bag were several packs of cigarettes, the currency of the prison; blue and white T-shirts, the only colors prisoners could wear; and small plastic packets of tea and sugar…

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