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Akhbar Al-Adab controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 2014

    The Use of Life publication case

    After Akhbar Al-Adab published material from Ahmed Naji’s novel The Use of Life in August 2014, Naji and editor-in-chief Tarek el-Taher were charged over allegedly indecent content. Both were acquitted on 2 January 2016. The case became associated with debates over censorship and literary freedom in Egypt.