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Jonathan Guyer

World

Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity

Ahmed Naji’s novel was not overtly political, but the “protagonist performs cunnilingus, rolls hash joints and gulps from bottles of vodka” which led a lawyer to press charges against him for causing a fluctuation in his blood pressure when the novel was excerpted in a Cairo newspaper, even though it had been approved by censors.

Jonathan Guyer Rolling Stone Feb 2017 20min Permalink