Ahmed Naji

لم أتعرف على والدي، بعد أن أرسل لي صورًا حديثة للعائلة، وقد ظهر التجويع عليه واضحًا، فقد خسر نصف وزنه، نَحِل تمامًا، وغيرت الشمس لون بشرته الأسمر بالأساس إلى أشد اسمرارًا، عيناي استغربتاه لكن قلبي يعرف والدي ولا تهمني الأشكال، وأعرف شعبي، ولا تهمني الأجساد. qantara.de/ar/article/%...

سياسة ألمانيا بالشرق الأوسط: الجوع في غزة – صُنع في ألمانيا | Qantara.de يتضوّر الأطفال جوعًا في غزة وسط تصاعد موجة انتقادات واسعة داخل ألمانيا، فيما تقف الحكومة الألمانية مكتوفة الأيدي رغم نفوذها السياسي الكبير. يرى يانيس هجمان، في تعليقه، أن برلين مطالبة الآن بالتحرك لوق...

الجوع في غزة – صُنع في ألمانيا qantara.de/ar/article/%...

Even the tears were taken from us.

After two years of silence or clapping their hands, while genocide is happening, it's time for American writers to write about their trauma and complicity in the genocide.🍑

Years later, the piece found its home at McSweeney’s, where I had the joy of editing it with Rita Bullwinkel (and if you haven’t read her novel Headshot, you should). I’m thrilled it’s now published alongside work by Helen DeWitt, James Kaelan, T.C. Boyle, and other brilliant writers.

Another reason to get your copy, Inside is my short story “The Case of the Missing Liver”, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette six years ago for publication in England, but it was canceled because it considered an illegal under Britain’s defamation laws — which, unbelievably, don’t even spare fiction.

Look at this beauty that just arrived in my mailbox — the new issue of McSweeney’s, with stunning cover art by Marta Monteiro. Photos can’t capture its full magic; you have to hold it in your hands. The lines and colors are woven into the cover fabric, not merely printed — truly an art piece

بعد 52 توارى المصري افندى ، وكل التمثيلات الذكورية، وأصبحت مصر امرأة حزينة فلاحة امية، مغلوب على أمرها

لعقود ايام الاستعمار البريطاني ، كان بيتم تصوير مصر دائما كذكر ، أشخص تمثيل مثلا المصري افندى ، اللى بنشوفه هنا على غلاف مجلة روز اليوسف ببزاز مدلدلة مطلوقة في حرية وابتسامة سعيدة، يستخدم السبحة في تقييد يد بريطانيا ويقطع رأسها ونشاهد الدماء على المذبح...
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شواكيش العمال التي كانت تطرق الملاعب أهمية الترسانة وقتها أنه كان "نادي العمال"، بالتالي فجمهوره المحتمل هم العمال، وبالفعل اكتسب النادي ظهيرًا شعبيًا في وقت قياسي.

شواكيش العمال التي كانت تطرق الملاعب almanassa.com/stories/25902

I didn’t have any money, but I was hungry. So I ordered their new Vertical AI Sushi Roll, which was named “Ocean Vuong.” That’s when I had to wake up. I couldn’t take such a nightmare any longer.

The waiter was Etgar Keret. He had a wonderful smile, words were dripping out of his mouth, juicy and crispy at the same time, in total he was an eye candy, but even in the dream, I knew better—not to trust short story writers.

When I looked at the menu, it wasn’t there, so I asked the waiter. He told me it’s a special dish—you have to order it three days in advance because they get the baby fetuses fresh from Gaza.

I dreamed I entered a restaurant, and I saw Joyce Carol Oates eating noodle baby soup, with human fetuses floating in it.

What's the best love story you've read in American literature over the past 50 years?

الراجل دا هو النسخة الامريكانى من مصطفي محمود وانيس منصور في بعض

More Nipples! - Lux Magazine An experimental fiction writer takes on the lesbian romance novel

In both books, the dearth of pages about good queer sex is substituted with great swathes of prose about the authors’ feelings about their ex-husbands. lux-magazine.com/article/my-l...

A scientific discovery. Conducted in Egypt. By Egyptians. Written, for the first time, in the Egyptian language. Recorded on Egyptian temples and in their books.
--3000 years after...
a smug American populist says: “ the ancient Greeks did that.”

Empty Cages It’s been wrapped In a plastic bag and buried in a drawer ever since I brought it here from the old house along with all my other so-called valuables. The tin is crammed full of old poems—in blue, …

I wasn’t planning to re-read my childhood poems; they could fade away for all I cared. With the distance of age, childhood appears strange and tiresome, a constant reminder of how much time has passed. lithub.com/empty-cages/...

Gibbons, A. (2019) ‘Using Life and Abusing Life in the Trial of Ahmed Naji: Text World Theory, Adab, and the Ethics of Reading’, Journal of Language and Discrimination 3(1): 4-31. This article undertakes a cognitive stylistic investigation of the trial of Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji, who was prosecuted – and subsequently imprisoned – for ‘disturbing public morals’ by depicting s...

Gibbons, A. (2019) ‘Using Life and Abusing Life in the Trial of Ahmed Naji: Text World Theory, Adab, and the Ethics of Reading’, www.academia.edu/38295593/Gib...

صُنع «الواحات».. عما نستخلصه من يوميات صنع الله هذا النص ضمن العدد 12# من «مُنتهى الأدب»

لا أفكر أنني يجب أن أكتب في الموضوع الفلاني وأجلس لأكتبه وأبحث له عن شكل، كلا. إن مشاعري تتحرك وتتأثر بفكرة، بتجربة أو ذكرى، بأسلوب، شكل وتطالب بالانطلاق. وفي أثناء عملية الانطلاق تتفاعل مع عقلي الواعي ليُصاغ موضوعها أو محتواها» mada38.appspot.com/www.madamasr...

كلنا نكتبه.. لكن ملّكَتُه صعبة هذا النص ضمن العدد 12# من «مُنتهى الأدب»

ا طفلة كانت بتجري ورا صاحبتها بعزم ما فيها. فجأة، البنت التانية وقفت، ولفّت وسألتها: «إنتي بتجري ورايا ليه؟» الطفلة اللي كانت بتجري، وقفت هي كمان. من غير نهجان، ولا تفكير، ردّت بمنتهى التلقائية، وبصوت يملك الحقيقة المطلقة كالأزميل والمطرقة: «وإنتي مالك». mada38.appspot.com/www.madamasr...

Are Brains Bright With Their Own Light? For decades now, scientists have caught flashes of light inside cells. Lentil seeds emit tiny, faint sparks. The mitochondria of cancer cells appear to respond to light. Receptors for light—proteins c...

Are Brains Bright With Their Own Light? www.templeton.org/news/are-bra...

Echoes from the Big Bang suggest Earth is trapped inside a giant cosmic void, scientists claim www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

Diving into Nature's masterpiece.

Like the old Sufis, who shed the garments of the world to wrap themselves in rough wool, I could give it all up for a red raincoat. The road is open to anyone. That’s the only requirement: wear the coat, and walk.

Or as Lord Byron said:
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame;
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.

Regret is guilt without redemptive punishment. It hurts more and lasts longer, because deep down you know that if time rewound, you’d probably do it again, and regret it all over

Poetry in Chains: Writers Gather in Solidarity With Detained Poet Galal El-Behairy - PEN America If you have something different inside of you, don’t lose it, don’t suppress it. Feed it by reading poetry, by participating in such campaigns and solidarity.

Find a recording of the gathering and full conversation with El-Behairy’s father, novelist @ahmednaji.bsky.social, PEN International’s @minathabet.bsky.social, and journalist @basmamostafa.bsky.social in our latest blog. Read and share with #FreeGalal

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Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence

For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet."
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