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"“An imprisoned writer is a very serious thing indeed and should not be treated lightly… Naji’s prose explicitly confronts what happens when one’s fundamentally unserious, oversexed youth dovetails with an authoritarian, utterly self-serious regime that is in the process of tearing itself apart. It’s very bad historical luck…” Smith on Ahmed Naji’s imprisonment following publication of ‘Using Life’" — Jan 20, 2026 02:33AM
"“An imprisoned writer is a very serious thing indeed and should not be treated lightly… Naji’s prose explicitly confronts what happens when one’s fundamentally unserious, oversexed youth dovetails with an authoritarian, utterly self-serious regime that is in the process of tearing itself apart. It’s very bad historical luck…” Smith on Ahmed Naji’s imprisonment following publication of ‘Using Life’" — Jan 20, 2026 02:33AM
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