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Egypt + 100 poses a question to twelve contemporary Egyptian authors: what might your country look like in the year 2111 - exactly a century after the failed Tahrir Square Revolution? Might Egypt still be in the grip of ' friendly authoritarianism', clinging to power with all the weapons of futurism at its disposal: protest-avoidant architecture, excessive surveillance, the slow replacement of the outside world with the virtual one. Or might other historical forces come into play, pairing pragmatism with tolerance, and realising some of the lost aspirations of the long-cancelled ' Arab Spring' . Covering a range of styles - from SF noir, to supernatural horror, to political farce - these stories use the blank canvas of the future to process recent traumas that Egypt has yet to come to terms with. Along the way, we encounter gladiatorial entertainments, anti-procreation resistance movements, the decline of Cairo into a lawless wasteland, far from the gated security of the New Capital, and the simultaneous flooding of lower Egypt with the drying up of the Nile. Each story offers an object lesson in the strange logic of authoritarianism, and how, as the editor puts it, politicians' fant

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Ahmed Naji is a bilingual writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and official criminal from Egypt. His novels are: Rogers (2007), Using Life (2014), And Tigers to My Room (2020), Happy Endings (2023), and most recently, a memoir, Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in Prison (McSweeney' s, 2023), which was a Finalist at the National Book Critic Circle. He is currently exiled in Las Vegas, Nevada. More about his work here: ahmednaji.net.

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