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أحمد ناجي

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أحمد ناجى كاتب وصحفي، مواليد المنصورة 1985.
عمل في مجال الصحافة الثقافية منذ عام 2004، دخل السجن عام 2016 بتهمة خدش الحياء العام بسبب نشر فصل من روايته استخدام الحياة، مقيم حالياً في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية

Ahmed Naji is a writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and criminal.
His Using Life (2014) made him the only writer in Egyptian history to be imprisoned for offending public morality.
His book Rotten Evidence, which chronicles his time in prison, is due out in September (2023) with McSweeney's. Other novels by him published in Arabic are Tigers, Uninvited (2020), The happy ends (2022).
Naji has won several prizes, including a Dubai Press Club Award, a PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, and an Open Eye Award. He is currently a fello
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استخدام الحياة

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This is the latest book by Egyptian author Ahmed Naji, set in America where Naji has been living and following the trials and tribulations of an Egyptian immigrant struggling to find a place in New York City where he embarks on mysterious and supernatural adventures as he tries to climb the social ladder. With an unconventional plot, the novel tackles – with Read more of this blog post »
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النهايات السعيدة by أحمد ناجي
"رغبة منه في تحسين شكل حياته بعد مغادرة مصر. يحاول بطل الرواية الحصول على وظيفة تناسبه لاستكمال دراسته في نيويورك.

هذه الرواية عن النهايات الغير سعيدة للمهاجرين، والحلم الأمريكي الذي سرعان ما يتحول لكابوس. رغم بساطة حلم بطلنا وسطحية تفكيره.

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"أول تعرف بالكاتب ، لأن الرقابة نجحت ، ليس فقط في إخفاء ما " يُخدش الحياء " بل الثالوث المقدس كله ، الدين و السياسة و الجنس

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"أثناء وصف ناجي لتفاصيل محاكمته في الكتاب، يلتفت قائلاً "من المهم هنا أن تعلو فوق تفاصيلك لتقدم نظرة أوسع عن الظرف السياسي العام". الالتفات الذكي، والدائم من الذاتي للعام، والعكس، والمحاولة الصادقة لفهم الكاتب لنفسه وما حوله، هي الثيمة الإبداعية التي " Read more of this review »
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“It is a pervasive condition of empires that they affect great swathes of the planet without the empire's populace being aware of that impact - indeed without being aware that many of the affected places even exist. How many Americans are aware of the continuing socio environmental fallout from U.S. militarism and foreign policy decisions made three or four decades ago in, say, Angola or Laos? How many could even place those nation-states on a map?”
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“Ours is an age of onrushing turbo-capitalism, wherein the present feels more abbreviated than it used to be – at least for the world's privileged classes who live surrounded by technological time-savers that often compound the sensation of not having enough time. Consequently, one of the most pressing challenges of our age is how to adjust rapidly eroding attention spans to the slow erosions of environmental justice. If, under neoliberalism, the gulf between the enclaved rich and outcast poor has become ever more pronounced, ours is also an era of enclaved time wherein for many speed has become self-justifying, propulsive ethic that renders "uneventful" violence (to those who live remote from its attritional lethality) a weak claimant on our time. The attosecond pace of our age, with its restless technologies of infinite promise and infinite disappointment, prompts us to keep flicking and clicking distractedly in an insatiable –often insensate– quest for quicker sensation".”
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“فقبل الشعر والسرد والأسطورة كان الفارق الأبرز بين الإنسان والحيوان "الضحك" ، كانت النكتة ، وكان الإفيه . وبمرور الوقت تحولت النكتة إلى ذكرى ، والذكرى بعثت الحنين ، ومنه جاءت التراجيديا . قدست اللغة رغم أنها لم تكن سوى لعبة .”
أحمد ناجي, سبع (7) دروس مستقاة من أحمد مكى

“كنت دائماً ما أشعر بالكآبة. أستيقظ في الصبَاحِ عَاجزاً حتى عن الابتسام في المرآة. لم أكن لوحدي، بل كل من يحيا في هذه المدينة كان عاجزاً عن الابتسام، بعضهم نسي كيف تكون الابتسامة، وفي اللحظات النادرة حينما يبتسم لك نادل ما في المطعم، أو أي شخص يسدي لك مَعرُوفاً حتي لو كان يُسَاعدك في ركن سيارتك، تعرف طبقاً لقوانين المدينة أنك يجب أن ترد له هذه الابتسامة بمُقَابل مادي مع أنك تعرف أيضاً أنه سوف يسبك ما أن تعطيه ظهرك. القاهرة كلها كانت وعاء كرَاهية، كانت المادة الخام للكرَاهية والتعاسة.”
أحمد ناجي, استخدام الحياة

“لا يوجد ما هو أصعب من القرارات في القاهرة، لأن القاهرة غالباً هي من تقرر لك كيف تكون حياتك. كيف تتوزع قصة حبك، كيف تنتهي، متى تأكل، كم ساعة من عمرك ستضيع في زحام الشوارع، نسبة إصابتك بالسرطان، نوعية وتوقيت تعرضك لحادث السيارة، درجة قذارة الطعام الذي ستضطر لتناوله في الشارع. كم كلبا سيجري وراءك ليلاً في حياتك. أنت هنا عبد لهذه المدينة، ولكي تمنحك نفسها يجب أن تبيعها روحك بعقد موثق بالدم.”
أحمد ناجي, استخدام الحياة

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
Milan Kundera

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I have no mission. No one has.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Hany شكرا ياصديقى على الدعوة
وكل سنه وانت طيب


هبة ربيع thanks 4 invitation
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