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Ahmed Naji

Ahmed Naji
Ahmed Naji is a writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and criminal. His novel Using Life (2014) made him the only writer in Egyptian history to have been sent to prison for offending public morality. Other published novels in Arabic are Tigers, Uninvited (2020) and The Happy End (2022), and he is also the author of Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison (2023). Naji has won several prizes, including a Dubai Press Club Award, and PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. For more about his work, visit ahmednaji.net


Writing Sex in Arabic Literature: Ahmed Naji Narrates His Own Obscenity Trial

"I’m ignorant and confused, even more so than Kafka’s man from the country"
October 19, 2023  By Ahmed Naji
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