Author: Ahmed Naji -أحمد ناجى
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A Visit to Heizer’s City: an allegory that needs no interpretation
The piece was published at the Believer magazine, Read it here: A Visit to Heizer’s City – Believer Magazine (thebeliever.net) I visited Michael Heizer’s City for the first time in my dreams, twenty-seven years ago. I was twelve years old, living with my family in Kuwait, when I started to experience a recurring…
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The American Media goes to the war
The American media, with its various and sometimes competing arms, is currently experiencing a unification of efforts to prepare for an expanded military conflict. Over the past few weeks, American war media has been focusing on two main points: Demonizing Netanyahu: Every six hours, you’ll find a new article or…
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Dune in 2024: A World Beyond Saving
I wrote this article in English, but Arabic translation is here, Also Spanish and French one I grew up reading science fiction — in Arabic — from an early age, eventually becoming a science fiction writer myself. However, it wasn’t until I migrated to the U.S. six years ago that…
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ArabLit review: Egypt + 100’: Fictions on the Future of Public Space
Full review here Each anthology of near-future fiction in Comma Press’s “Futures Past” series has had a distinctly different flavor. The stories in Iraq + 100, ed. Hassan Blasim, are set in 2103, a hundred years after the disastrous US-led invasion, and many of them map the catastrophic aftereffects of this war.…
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White entertainment
Christian Malanga DR Congo Coup Leader with the American Mercenary, Benjamin Polun in the Golan Spy Shop in Israel, a company that sells hidden cameras, GPS trackers, etc that’s under contract of Israeli law (mosad) enforcement . pic.twitter.com/BTUpAZnocC — K.Diallo ☭ (@nyeusi_waasi) May 20, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Love is not permanent,…
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Immigrant in Zero act
why were the bodies and rights of slaves considered part of the legal system in the 19th century, while today’s immigrants are not?
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Lina Mounzer: Rotten Evidence: Ahmed Naji Writes About Writing in PrisonLina Mounzer:
Published: Rotten Evidence: Ahmed Naji Writes About Writing in Prison – The Markaz Review By now, the story has become the standard addendum following any introduction of Ahmed Naji’s name: in 2015, an excerpt from the young Egyptian writer’s second novel, Using Life, was published in a literary supplement in Cairo. A…
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Statement on Sawiris Cultural Award
I sincerely thank the Sawiris Cultural Award jury for selecting my novel ‘The Happy Endings’ for the youth’s Best Novel category. I am proud of this achievement because this award is one of the few Arabic literary awards given by a non-governmental organization, and I am honored to have my…