Mohamed Nagui (Arabic: محمد ناجي), an award-winning Egyptian writer and novelist, is the author of several well-known novels, including 'Al-Affendy', 'Morning Song' and 'Travel Night'.
Nagui went on to establish a career in journalism,[1] working for various news outlets, and even serving as an editor for the Arabic-language newspaper Liberation Today.
"[5] Yet, even with this story, Nagui resisted the temptation to produce purely political works, with one critic noting how: "On the surface, Mohamed Nagui's The Effendi looks like another one of those anger-laden books about the corruption eating contemporary Egypt from the inside out...[But] Nagui uses the by now clichéd template of the Egyptian young man who snakes his way up using unethical short-cuts and sleight-of-hand, and turns it over its head by writing something closer to a modern fairytale.
[7] To date, Nagui remains widely regarded as one of the most influential writers to have ever come from the pan-Arab region.
Nagui received therapeutic sessions in Paris, while friends and family hoped he would be able to once again return to producing literary works.