Category: Publications & Press
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Laughter in the Dark -by Zadie Smith
I first heard the name Ahmed Naji at a PEN dinner last spring. I looked up from my dessert to a large projection of a young Egyptian man, rather handsome, slightly louche-looking, with a Burt Reynolds moustache, wearing a Nehru shirt in a dandyish print and the half smile of…
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Egypt Art On Trial
Ahmed Naji, 31, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist born in Mansoura in 1985. He is the author of three books, Rogers (2007), Seven Lessons Learned from Ahmed Makky (2009), and The Use of Life (2014), as well as numerous blogs and other articles. He is also a journalist for…
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A solidarity message From Salman Roshdi
Ahmad Salman Rushdie (AKA) Salman Rushdie one of my favorite writers, In the prison I was lucky to sneak 2 of his books ( Shame, Midnight’s Children) and read it there. It saved my mind, and helped to give me some lights in the dark days there.. Now, after I…
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Richard Jacquemond: Ahmed Naji, the Use of Life and the zombies
How do you feel when you learn that the author of the novel you’ve been reading and enjoying for the past few days has just been given a two-year prison sentence for violating public morality? One more on the list, you say. Tens of thousands of his fellow citizens rot…