Egyptian author Ahmed Naji is found guilty of violating public modesty for the writings from his novel “Using Life. ... Writers and artists worry about a trend of prosecuting intellectuals.

Egyptian novelist Mohamed Samir Nada has won the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for The Prayer of Anxiety. Nada was awarded the $50,000 prize for his poetic third novel at a ceremony ...

Born in 1962, Ahmed Khaled Tawfik was one of the earliest Egyptian writers to specialise in horror, science fiction and fantasy, and his work included both illustrated books and novels.

The Arab world covers an enormous territory. This movement of dystopian fiction is largely an Egyptian phenomenon, although the two genre entries that have actually won the International Prize for ...

FILE - Egyptian author Ahmed Naji poses for a photo in Cairo, Egypt, in this undated image. Naji was sentenced to two years in jail on Feb. 20, 2016, by a Cairo appeals court for publishing a ...

Egyptian authors shortlisted for literary prize. ABU DHABI- Egyptians Bahaa Taher and Mekkawi Said are the best known of six authors whose books have been shortlisted for the inaugural ...

Ancient Egyptian writers also hunched over devices and suffered the consequences. ... The main point that the authors noticed was changes in the temporomandibular joint, or TMJ.

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 ...

An imprisoned Egyptian author and journalist is being given the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, presented by PEN America. Ahmed Naji received a two-year sentence in February for “destroying ...