Ahmed Naji (born 15 September 1985) (Arabic: أحمد ناجي) is an Egyptian journalist and literary novelist. He was born in Mansoura. He has written numerous journalistic and critical articles and several books, including The Use of Life (2014), which resulted in his being jailed in Egypt in 2016 for "violating public modesty," due to its sexual content and drug references, marking the first time in modern Egypt that an author has been jailed for a work of literature. He served almost 300 days in jail before being released, and later was given the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award by PEN America. He moved to Washington, D.C. with his wife, and was a City of Asylum Fellow at the UNLV Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2019 to 2023. Naji was a regular contributor to Al-Akhbar al-Adab and Al-Masry Al-Youm, among other publications. Source: Wikipedia (en)