{"product_id":"rotten-evidence-reading-and-writing-in-an-egyptian-prison-1952119839","title":"Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1952119839\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Naji, Ahmed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for \"violating public modesty,\" after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cell block in Cairo's Tora Prison.Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji's writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy, home-made chess sets, and well-groomed fixers. Naji's storytelling is lively and uncompromising, filled with rare insights into both the mundane and grand questions he confronts.How does one secure a steady supply of fresh vegetables without refrigeration? How does one write and revise a novel in a single notebook? Fight boredom? Build a clothes hanger? Negotiate with the chief of intelligence? And, most crucially, how does one make sense of a senseless oppression: finding oneself in prison for the act of writing fiction. Genuine and defiant, this book stands as a testament to the power of the creative mind, in the face of authoritarian censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51972476109088,"sku":"NEW1952119839","price":23.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/rotten-evidence-reading-and-writing-in-an-egyptian-prison-1952119839","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}