Friday 24 February 2017

Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity

On a scorching Saturday morning in July, Ahmed Naji stood in the crowded cage of a Cairo courtroom. The 31-year-old author had been convicted six months earlier of "violating public morality" for publishing a piece of literature. In his novel, Using Life, an irreverent portrayal of youth culture on the cusp of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the protagonist performs cunnilingus, rolls

This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity



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