In 2009 she published her first book, Esh A'rrih ('A Nest on the Wind'; Egyptian Arabic: عش عالريح, IPA: [ʕeʃ.ʃe ʕæɾˈɾiːħ, ʕælˈ-]), a collection of articles, and in the same year she co-authored a book written exclusively by women writers under the title of Ana Ontha (I'm Female; Arabic: أنا أنثى).
Sanaa Al-Bissy, the then editor-in-chief of the magazine decided to hire her but Ibrahim Nafie, ex-CEO of Al-Ahram, refused, saying that "she will be tenured when she ceases to be the daughter of Safinaz Kazem and Ahmed Fouad Negm".
[2] So Nawara Negm left Al-Ahram to explore other opportunities, working for AlWafd (a daily newspaper owned and run by the opposition party Al-Wafd), El-Helwa magazine, and Al-Qahira (a weekly newspaper published by the Ministry of Culture).
[4] In 2006 Negm inaugurated her predominantly political blog titled Gabhet El Tahyees El Shaabeya (Egyptian Arabic: جبهة التهييس الشعبية, IPA: [ˈɡæbhet et-, el.tæhˈjiːs eʃ-, el.ʃæʕˈbejːæ]; may be translated, imperfectly, as 'Popular Front of Sarcasm').
The header of the blog features a young girl biting barbed wire and includes a caption, both in Arabic and in English, that reads "Freedom is only for those who are ready to die.