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|description_of_result=The novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji — along with his editor, Tarek al-Taher — was tried, and upon appeal, re-tried for the publication of an excerpt of his novel ''Using Life'' in Akhbar al-Adab. As of December 4, 2016, Naji remains in jail but is on the 2nd presidential pardon list. | |description_of_result=The novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji — along with his editor, Tarek al-Taher — was tried, and upon appeal, re-tried for the publication of an excerpt of his novel ''Using Life'' in Akhbar al-Adab. As of December 4, 2016, Naji remains in jail but is on the 2nd presidential pardon list. | ||
UPDATE Dec 18: "The two-year prison sentence against writer Ahmed Naji, who has been jailed since February on charges of public indecency, was suspended on Sunday pending review on January 1, 2017." (Mada Masr, Dec 18, 2016) | UPDATE MAY 21, 2017: "Novelist Ahmed Naji has won his appeal before Egypt’s Court of Cassation — in the case of an allegedly sexually provocative novel excerpt — with the court vacating his two-year prison sentence and ordering his retrial." (Arabic Lit., MAY 21, 2017) | ||
UPDATE Dec 18, 2016: "The two-year prison sentence against writer Ahmed Naji, who has been jailed since February on charges of public indecency, was suspended on Sunday pending review on January 1, 2017." (Mada Masr, Dec 18, 2016) | |||
|image=Useoflife.jpg | |image=Useoflife.jpg | ||
|source=The Guide for "Use of Life" - دليل استخدام الحياة | |source=The Guide for "Use of Life" - دليل استخدام الحياة | ||
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Q7KbkxNnM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Q7KbkxNnM | ||
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[https://arablit.org/2017/05/21/egyptian-court-vacates-novelist-ahmed-najis-sentence-orders-new-trial/ Egyptian Court Vacates Novelist Ahmed Naji’s Sentence, Orders New Trial, Arabic Lit.], BY MLYNXQUALEY on MAY 21, 2017 | |||
[http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/cairo-novelist-imprisoned-for-obscenity-in-egypt-tells-story-w468084 Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity], Rolling Stone, Feb 25, 2017 | [http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/cairo-novelist-imprisoned-for-obscenity-in-egypt-tells-story-w468084 Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity], Rolling Stone, Feb 25, 2017 | ||