Author: Ahmed Naji -أحمد ناجى
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إبراهيم عبد المجيد يكتب: كيف غاب هذا الكاتب عن النقاد وتاريخ الرواية المصرية؟
ليس من عملي البحث والاستقصاء في تاريخ الأدب . لكن هذا لا يمنع من الدهشة حين ألتقي بنص لم أعرفه من قبل أو أسمع به . هذه المرة كانت الدهشة كبيرة جدا لأن ما وصلني هو نص غاب اسم صاحبه تماما ، وغابت أعماله عن النقد الأدبي في مصر أو…
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مئة عام على معركة المايوه النسائي.. ومستمرة!
عد النجاح المدوي لعدد من المسرحيات التي أدت فيها دور البطولة مع المخرج عزيز عيد (1884-1942)، انتقلت روز اليوسف للعمل مع فرقة عكاشة المسرحية، إحدى أنجح وأشهر الفرق في منتصف العشرينات من القرن الماضى. أصبحت روز بطلة الفرقة الأولى، وطافت مع الفرقة مسارح مصر الكبرى في ذلك الوقت. في الصيف…
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I Love Wasta and Hate Standing in Line, but I am Poor
We encounter no scenes of people lining up in Renaissance paintings, neither is there evidence of the existence of lines among the Romans or the Greek. In the workers’ city by the pyramids, detailed records have been found regarding workers’ wages, their diet, food and beer rations, yet lo and…
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With Bulaq podcast: Reading and Writing Behind Bars
Listen to whole interview here : https://www.sowt.com/en/podcast/bulaq-bwlaq/reading-and-writing-behind-bars
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Music in Egypt in the Last Decade: Hit and Run with the Authorities
I started my career in journalism seventeen years ago. In a series of unplanned incidents, I ended up covering musical activities and the contemporary music scene as my main focus. In a pre-2011 world, there were quite a few regulations and limitations controlling music production in Egypt and three adjacent,…
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Ahmed Naji on the Contemporary Reality of the Exiled Writer
This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the new essay collection, Thin Places, and brought to you by…
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Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison
During the 1921 obscenity trial involving James Joyce’s Ulysses, a dispute broke out between the prosecuting attorney and the defense team in the New York courthouse. The assistant district attorney angrily announced he was going to read an extract from the novel out loud to establish before the court that…
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An Interview with Ahmed Naji: “I don’t think identity is a tattoo
Ahmed Naji is a collector of occupational labels—occasional journalist, blogger, intellectual masturbator, documentary filmmaker, agent for belly dancers—accepting any label, and prescribing to none. The one that feels most true is simply “writer.” For Naji, to be a writer is not an identity in itself, but an avenue for discovery:…
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RE:WRITING THE FUTURE: THE TANTA MUSEUM OF WHITE HISTORY
A ravishing tale about a time when political and social world orders have been turned on their heads. It gives us great pleasure to present this proposal for a flagship museum commemorating the history of white people as part of an initiative to recognise and celebrate the ethnic and cultural…