An Egyptian author has been sentenced to two ... would increase fears that people of different viewpoints and fiction [writers] would be thrown in prison for the mere expression of these opinions ...

In May, Woody Allen, Philip Roth and Stephen Sondheim were among more than 120 authors, artists and journalists calling on the Egyptian government to drop charges against Naji. The literary and ...

Egyptian novelist Mohamed Samir Nada has won ... calls it a future classic of contemporary Arabic literature. “Enchanted by the elegant writing and the deft structure of the novel, the reader ...

Authors are planning to “burn” their literary works in protest at the two-year jail sentence handed to author Ahmed Naji on Saturday for publishing a chapter of his novel allegedly containing ...

“PEN hopes that this award will spur writers, readers, advocates, and world leaders to press Egypt to release Naji immediately and to stop treating creativity as a crime.” Egyptian ...