Category: Publications & Press
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Review: Egypt’s Carceralocracy
Read the full review here :Egypt’s Carceralocracy | Collective Antigone
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Waiting for the Waters to Rise: ‘Egypt+100’ (ed. Ahmed Naji, 2024)
In 2015, the Egyptian government announced ambitious plans for a new capital city in the desert east of Cairo. Taking inspiration from smart cities in China, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan, the new development would feature thirty-five square miles of solar farms, an artificial river feeding a six-thousand-acre park, and a city-wide security…
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New Book: The Speculative RouteFutures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa
The Speculative RouteFutures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa In a new book that just came out, I contributed a chapter on science fiction in Arabic literature. In it, I attempt to introduce a new definition of sci-fi—one that diverges from the Western model. My approach isn’t rooted…
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Teresa Pepe: From Prison to the World: A Comparative Reading of Naji’s Hirz Mikamkim (Rotten Evidence, 2020) and Abd el-Fattah’s You Have Not Yet Been Defeated (2021)
Abstract This article analyses Ahmed Naji’s Hirz Mikamkim (Rotten Evidence) and Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s You Have Not Yet Been Defeated through the lens of ‘prison literature’, that is “literary works produced in, about, or through the experience of political detention” (Taleghani 13). Comparing them to previous forms of prison literature from Egypt, it shows…
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New book: Imprisoning a Revolution
Writings from Egypt’s Incarcerated My collaboration with Collective Antigone finally is out, our book The book is a groundbreaking collection of writings by political prisoners in Egypt, offering a unique lens on the global rise of authoritarianism during the last decade. This book contains letters, poetry, and art produced by…
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At locus mag: Egypt + 100 edited by Ahmed Naji : Review by Niall Harrison
Published first here: Egypt + 100 edited by Ahmed Naji : Review by Niall Harrison – Locus Online Egypt + 100, Ahmed Naji ed. (Comma Press 9781912697700, 160pp, £9.99, tp) July 2024. From the point of view of a science fiction reviewer, Egypt + 100 marks an interesting development in Comma Press’s…
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AudioBook is out: Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison
Listen Free to Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison by Ahmed Naji with a Free Trial.
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Review: Yasmine El Rashidi on Sonallah Ibrahim & Ahmed Naji
This review was published here first: Review: Yasmine El Rashidi on Sonallah Ibrahim & Ahmed Naji The literary diary is a genre popular in Arabic writing. Known as mudhakkirāt, which translates literally as “memorandums,” revealing the form’s perceived proximity to lived reality, such testimonies came to be anticipated of celebrated and…