Ahmed Naji
@ahmednaji.bsky.social
Writer, Novelist, Documentary Filmmakers, Criminal, ex-journalist. More about his crimes:
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Ahmed Naji
@ahmednaji.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Translated by Katharine Halls
In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for “violating public decency,” after an excerpt...
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Egypt + 100: Stories From a Century After Tahrir Reviewed by Lisa Anderson www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/egyp...
Egypt + 100: Stories From a Century After Tahrir
A dozen Egyptian writers were invited to imagine the Egypt of 2111, exactly a century after the start of the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. The results are revealing.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Egypt + 100: Stories From a Century After Tahrir Reviewed by Lisa Anderson www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/egyp...
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
عن عبد العاطى، وصوت البطة المكتوم، والخوف كنمط ومبتغى للحياة
manassa.news/stories/28781
manassa.news/stories/28781
لم يُسجن عبد العاطي بسبب بقبقة البطة
السؤال الضروري طرحه ليس عن سبب حبس عبد العاطي أو ما هو الخادش في صوت البطة، بل: كيف نخرج من دائرة الخوف الجهنمية؟
manassa.news
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
عن عبد العاطى، وصوت البطة المكتوم، والخوف كنمط ومبتغى للحياة
manassa.news/stories/28781
manassa.news/stories/28781
The usual semantic defamation campaign, which has been going on for thousands of years, involves an unpleasant anti-Hamitic joke
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The usual semantic defamation campaign, which has been going on for thousands of years, involves an unpleasant anti-Hamitic joke
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A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.
Reposted by Ahmed Naji
Sparkling like a festive bauble, Victor Stiebel’s early #1960s cocktail dress deploys a heap of embellishment not just in the form of beadwork at the bodice but a textured cloqué fabric as well. Sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Sparkling like a festive bauble, Victor Stiebel’s early #1960s cocktail dress deploys a heap of embellishment not just in the form of beadwork at the bodice but a textured cloqué fabric as well. Sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A secret is not what you want to conceal but something you want to reveal, but cannot. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Las Vegas Diaries — The Dial
“These days I have no passport, no documents. And even if I manage to get one, I cannot return to Egypt.”
www.thedial.world
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A secret is not what you want to conceal but something you want to reveal, but cannot. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
What is truly sad in all of this is the American media consistently cheering in the last years of the “new Saudi Arabia”: the concerts, the comedy shows, the lifted driving ban for women. They mistake branding to reform, and even some of them engage shamelessly in the washing and branding effort.
On the recent American-Saudia F ahmednaji.net/2025/11/21/o...
On the recent American-Saudia F
1 Five years ago, when the UAE signed the Abraham Accords with Israel, it did so with an expectation that advanced military hardware would follow, especially the F-35 fighter jets. Money was …
ahmednaji.net
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What is truly sad in all of this is the American media consistently cheering in the last years of the “new Saudi Arabia”: the concerts, the comedy shows, the lifted driving ban for women. They mistake branding to reform, and even some of them engage shamelessly in the washing and branding effort.
On the recent American-Saudia F ahmednaji.net/2025/11/21/o...
On the recent American-Saudia F
1 Five years ago, when the UAE signed the Abraham Accords with Israel, it did so with an expectation that advanced military hardware would follow, especially the F-35 fighter jets. Money was …
ahmednaji.net
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
On the recent American-Saudia F ahmednaji.net/2025/11/21/o...
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In 2018, two months before his 33rd birthday, Egyptian writer @ahmednaji.bsky.social arrived in the U.S. on a one-way ticket in a journey of exile and self-reinvention. These are excerpts from his journals from that time: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Las Vegas Diaries — The Dial
“These days I have no passport, no documents. And even if I manage to get one, I cannot return to Egypt.”
www.thedial.world
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In 2018, two months before his 33rd birthday, Egyptian writer @ahmednaji.bsky.social arrived in the U.S. on a one-way ticket in a journey of exile and self-reinvention. These are excerpts from his journals from that time: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Make rhizomes my friend, not roots, be water as Bruce Lee once said, map living connections instead of tracing fixed origins.
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Make rhizomes my friend, not roots, be water as Bruce Lee once said, map living connections instead of tracing fixed origins.
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Egypt +100: Reimagining #Egypt a century after the revolution – Ahmed Naji
https://ahmednaji.net/2024/09/08/egypt-100-reimagining-egypt-a-century-after-the-revolution/
#scifi
https://ahmednaji.net/2024/09/08/egypt-100-reimagining-egypt-a-century-after-the-revolution/
#scifi
September 9, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Egypt +100: Reimagining #Egypt a century after the revolution – Ahmed Naji
https://ahmednaji.net/2024/09/08/egypt-100-reimagining-egypt-a-century-after-the-revolution/
#scifi
https://ahmednaji.net/2024/09/08/egypt-100-reimagining-egypt-a-century-after-the-revolution/
#scifi
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It was an honor to serve as Chair of the NBCC autobiography award committee this year. Congratulations to the five finalists! Each book is unforgettable. abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...
January 26, 2024 at 3:13 AM
It was an honor to serve as Chair of the NBCC autobiography award committee this year. Congratulations to the five finalists! Each book is unforgettable. abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...
Reposted by Ahmed Naji
Two recent texts that are essential in communicating the various & urgent meanings of creative writing:
1) ‘Texts That Survived the Ashes’: By Ahmed Naji (today on ArabLit)
&
2) ‘Writing in Gaza’: by Yousef el-Qedra
1) ‘Texts That Survived the Ashes’: By Ahmed Naji (today on ArabLit)
&
2) ‘Writing in Gaza’: by Yousef el-Qedra
January 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Two recent texts that are essential in communicating the various & urgent meanings of creative writing:
1) ‘Texts That Survived the Ashes’: By Ahmed Naji (today on ArabLit)
&
2) ‘Writing in Gaza’: by Yousef el-Qedra
1) ‘Texts That Survived the Ashes’: By Ahmed Naji (today on ArabLit)
&
2) ‘Writing in Gaza’: by Yousef el-Qedra
We have no power except bushing and moving the lines in a multipoltical environment, while the whole political narrative is collapsing in a body with no organs
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We have no power except bushing and moving the lines in a multipoltical environment, while the whole political narrative is collapsing in a body with no organs
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The stuff that passes for literture these days...
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The stuff that passes for literture these days...
Reposted by Ahmed Naji
Depictions of children dying were rife in 19th century literture, mirroring high child mortality levels in real life. “People who want to dismantle a century of resolute public health measures, like vaccination, invite those horrors to return.” [theconversation.com]
Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
theconversation.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Depictions of children dying were rife in 19th century literture, mirroring high child mortality levels in real life. “People who want to dismantle a century of resolute public health measures, like vaccination, invite those horrors to return.” [theconversation.com]
what about American Journalist Shreen Abu Akile who was killed by the IDF, what about more than 100 journalists that Israel killed and targeted last year, why we never see anyone ask Bibi Nughty about all of that
1. Trump suggests that Jamal Khashoggi may have deserved to be assassinated or at least should not be a sympathetic figure, and then says that the Saudi Crown Prince was unaware in advance of the assassination plot.
Trump’s own intel agencies concluded that MBS was aware in advance of the plot.
Trump’s own intel agencies concluded that MBS was aware in advance of the plot.
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
what about American Journalist Shreen Abu Akile who was killed by the IDF, what about more than 100 journalists that Israel killed and targeted last year, why we never see anyone ask Bibi Nughty about all of that
And as for god; God is lobster, or a double pincer, a double bind
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
And as for god; God is lobster, or a double pincer, a double bind
who does the earth think it is
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
who does the earth think it is
Thinking back, I realize our complaint wasn’t so much about money per se as about financially privileged vs. less privileged characters. lithub.com/those-folks-...
“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots
Since reading Naomi Kanakia’s essay, “Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money,” I’ve been recalling how often, nearly fifty years ago, Ray Carver and I complained about the…
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November 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thinking back, I realize our complaint wasn’t so much about money per se as about financially privileged vs. less privileged characters. lithub.com/those-folks-...
I’ve been recalling how often, nearly fifty years ago, Ray Carver and I complained about the same issue. At one point in our lives, we lived next to one another in dumpy motel cabins near Iowa City that rented for $10 a night. lithub.com/those-folks-...
“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots
Since reading Naomi Kanakia’s essay, “Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money,” I’ve been recalling how often, nearly fifty years ago, Ray Carver and I complained about the…
lithub.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I’ve been recalling how often, nearly fifty years ago, Ray Carver and I complained about the same issue. At one point in our lives, we lived next to one another in dumpy motel cabins near Iowa City that rented for $10 a night. lithub.com/those-folks-...
Who did this? I hope not AI
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Who did this? I hope not AI
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Engaged in the time-honored tradition of writing the slideshow for the presentation while waiting for the flight to the presentation
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Engaged in the time-honored tradition of writing the slideshow for the presentation while waiting for the flight to the presentation
يومن مناسب للاستماع للشهيد الحى رمضان البرنس:
open.spotify.com/track/2gsP9L...
open.spotify.com/track/2gsP9L...
Eloom
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November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
يومن مناسب للاستماع للشهيد الحى رمضان البرنس:
open.spotify.com/track/2gsP9L...
open.spotify.com/track/2gsP9L...