An appeals court in Egypt on Sunday ordered that novelist Ahmed Naji be be released pending appeal of his two-year sentence for “violating public modesty” after excerpts from his book that were ...

Whether you live in a country where freedom of expression is protected or not, all writers have a common interest in supporting the principle — and they tend to take it pretty seriously. Over 120 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

Naji has served 10 months of a sentence imposed in February 2016 for ‘violating public modesty’. The court suspended his sentence pending his appeal scheduled for 1 January 2017. He was released on 22 ...

An Egyptian author has been sentenced to two years in prison for writing “sexually explicit” scenes that were published in a magazine. Novelist Ahmed Naji was found guilty Saturday of violating public ...

Seven members of the outgoing 50-member committee that composed Egypt’s 2014 constitution issued a statement on Monday condemning author Ahmed Naji’s jail sentence, describing it as "unconstitutional.

If you were thrown in jail for writing, would you succumb to cynicism, or would you keep pushing forward? When Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji was imprisoned, it made him believe more in the power of ...

Upon its initial release in Arabic in the fall of 2014, Using Life received acclaim in Egypt and the wider Arabic world. But in 2016, comic book writer Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in ...

On Feb. 10, the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and Dartmouth Dialogues co-hosted Egyptian journalist and author Ahmed Naji for an event titled “The Power of Literature and ...