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Warning: This May Injure Your Modesty
Malik, Kenan http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/warning-this-may-injure-your-modesty/
Publisher: Kenan Malik
Date Written: 19/05/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian novelist and journalist who, in February, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for "injuring public modesty". In August 2014, Akhbar al-Adab, a state-funded literary magazine, had published an excerpt from his third novel, Istikhdam al-Hayah (Using Life), which had been previously approved by Egypt's censorship authority. In the excerpt, the narrator smokes hashish, drinks alcohol with his friends, and enjoys a sexual relationship with a woman. Hani Saleh Tawfik, a 65-year-old Egyptian, filed a case against Naji, alleging that reading the excerpt had caused him to experience heart palpitations, sickness, and a drop in blood pressure.
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