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Ahmed Naji

April 2017

  • Ahmed Naji

    Books blog
    Ahmed Naji on his wait to hear if Egyptian court will clear him to write again

    Jailed for offending public morals, the novelist was freed last year – but will only receive a final verdict on Sunday. Here he describes his agonising wait

February 2017

  • ‘I’m not a writer with a message’ … Ahmed Naji.

    Ahmed Naji: 'Prison made me believe in literature more'

    The Egyptian novelist, who was jailed last year for ‘violating public morality’ with his novel The Use of Life, looks back at an experience he hopes is now over

December 2016

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    Ahmed Naji to be freed from jail, but will face court again in January

  • Ahmed Naji

    Jailed Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji's appeal delayed

November 2016

  • Margaret Atwood photographed at the British Library for Saturday Interview. Photo by Linda Nylind. 13/10/2016.

    Margaret Atwood writes letter of solidarity to jailed Turkish novelist

    To mark Day of the Imprisoned Writer, the Canadian Booker prize winner has joined fellow authors in sending messages of support to five persecuted writers around the world, including Aslı Erdoğan

August 2016

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    Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji's jail term upheld over sexually explicit book

    Author must continue a two-year sentence handed down for including a scene that ‘violated public modesty’ in his novel The Use of Life

May 2016

  • Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addresses the Supreme Judicial Council on 23 April.

    Egypt must not try to legislate imagination – it must free Ahmed Naji

    Letters: To decide that readers should be protected from ‘immoral’ literature is to presume that readers are fools
  • Ahdaf Soueif

    Books blog
    Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji’s crime isn't what he wrote – it is that he is alive

    Ahdaf Soueif
    Over 600 Egyptian writers have signed a statement in support of the Egyptian author, who is serving a two-year sentence for ‘injuring public modesty’ with his graphic novel, The Use of Life
  • Ahmed Naji

    Philip Roth, Patti Smith and Woody Allen join protest at jailing of Egyptian writer

    Authors among 120 prominent writers and artists to co-sign PEN America letter to President Sisi demanding release

March 2016

  • Egyptians walk past recent graffiti with modern and Pharaonic motifs in Mohammed Mahmoud Street near Tahrir Square, in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Street art in Cairo, which flourished following the uprising that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, has mostly been painted over by authorities, but on Mohammed Mahmoud street artists use the whitewashed walls for new art works. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

    'Erase and I will draw again': the struggle behind Cairo's revolutionary graffiti wall

    The graffiti murals that sprang up on the walls of Cairo were a spontaneous reaction to Egypt’s revolution. But, despite their cultural importance, they’re being demolished in an attempt to clean up the city ... or is it to erase the past?

February 2016

  • Protesters hold a poster of Egyptian journalist, Mahmoud Moustafa, arrested by police four months ago.

    Guardian Africa network
    Egypt is one of the 'biggest prisons' for journalists, says watchdog

  • Ahmed Naji in court in Cairo, Egypt

    Egypt jails author Ahmed Naji for sexually explicit book

December 2015

  • Alaa al-Aswany

    Egypt's best-selling author says government trying to silence him

  • Alaa al-Aswany.

    Egypt shuts down novelist Alaa al-Aswany's public event and media work

November 2015

  • Ahmed Naji

    Egypt to put editor and writer on trial for sexually explicit writing

    Plaintiff reader said his heartbeat fluctuated and blood pressure dropped reading saucy passages from The Guide for Using Life

June 2015

  • Sana'a old city

    'Air strike' kills five in historic district of Sana'a

    Saudi-led coalition denies carrying out air strike in area described by Unesco as a jewel of Islamic culture

March 2015

  • Children in Syria

    Isis, carnage and 3.5m refugees: a day devoted to Syria's four-year war

  • Abu Shihab, a former FSA officer.

    War in Syria: how my life has changed

February 2015

  • Jordanian protest isis

    Isis has reached new depths of depravity. But there is a brutal logic behind it

    The video showing the burning alive of the captive Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Kasasbeh prompted revulsion around the world. Here, the author of an acclaimed new book on the rise of Isis examines the ideology that is driving the jihadi movement to ever more brutal killings

    ■ Murder in public is the new signature of the Isis conflict

November 2014

  • The 683 journalists murdered since 1992

    Media blog
    Murdered journalists: 90% of killers get away with it but who are the victims?

    With 370 dead over 10 years, governments need to do more to catch the killers, says the Committee to Protect Journalists
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