Ahmed Naji

Name: Narrating Incarceration and the Art of Resistance
Start: 2023-05-08T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-05-08T18:30:00-04:00

July 2021
Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison

July 15, 2021 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

This panel will feature a discussion with Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji about his time spent in a Cairene prison for violating public decency laws in his second novel, Using Life. Being a prisoner forced Ahmed to examine the role of literature in society; meet the fabled Average Reader and a man named Rhinoceros; and confront […]
September 2021
A Talk with Ahmed Naji About His New Book حرز مكمكم

September 24, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji will be in conversation with Rasha Hilwi about his new book حرز مكمكم, just out from Dar Khan Aljanub.
May 2022
The DC Arab Literature Festival: Narrating the Middle East

May 17, 2022 - May 18, 2022

"Narrating the Middle East" is an exciting virtual Arab literary festival taking place on Tuesday, May 17 and Wednesday May 18, 2022.
May 2023
Narrating Incarceration and the Art of Resistance

May 8, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

This panel aims to address the question of how resistance and trauma are conceived and practiced in prison literature in North Africa in the years leading to and following the […]