Talk Like An Egyptian
Learning Arabic in Cairo after the Arab Spring.
Cairo
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.
