Category: Articles
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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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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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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…
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(In WashingtonPost ) Locked up in an Egyptian prison, I found solace in the library
In this excerpt from his memoir, ‘Rotten Evidence,’ Ahmed Naji explores the role that books played in his life Perspective by Ahmed Naji November 2, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. EDT In 2016, Ahmed Naji served 10 months of a two-year prison sentence in Egypt for “violating public decency” in his novel…
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Writing Sex in Arabic Literature: Ahmed Naji Narrates His Own Obscenity Trial
This excerpt was published : Writing Sex in Arabic Literature: Ahmed Naji Narrates His Own Obscenity Trial ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com) Sometime in the early twentieth century, a large subgroup of Arabic words and expressions referring to sex and sexual organs began to disappear from printed books, as if the…
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Mahraganat: Echoes of the BattleMahraganat:
Translated by Humphrey Davies Mahraganat music has provoked a major debate between its detractors and its supporters. It has gained huge listening and viewing percentages and been subjected to violent attack from the media and officialdom. In this article, writer and music critic Ahmed Naji examines the growth, evolution, production…