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Ahmed Naji’s ‘Rotten Evidence’ a Finalist for 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award

January 25, 2024

JANUARY 25, 2024 — Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced its finalists for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are granted in eight categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, […]

On Translating Ahmed Naji’s ‘Rotten Evidence’

Interviews Ahmed Naji, Katharine Halls, Rotten Evidence

‘Rotten Evidence’: A Conversation with Translator Katharine Halls

October 31, 2023

By Tugrul Mende This month, Ahmed Naji’s Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison was published in Katharine Halls’ English translation. The book chronicles Naji’s two years in prison, which […]