Holds B.A. (Journalism) from Akhbar El-Yoam Academy, Cairo, 2006

Ahmad Nagy Egypt

 Born in Al-Mansoura, Egypt in 1985  Holds B.A. (Journalism) from Akhbar El- Yoam Academy, Cairo, 2006.  Since 2005, he has worked as editor at Akhbar Al-Adab newspaper concerned with cultural affairs.  Art and literary advisor to Malamih Publishing House.  Author of “Widen Your Imagination" (Wasse’ Khayalak) blog, with outstanding input to blogging and Internet activities.  Co-founder of the Egyptian Bloggers Complex.  Participated in training human rights activists in UAE, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, and Morocco in using the Internet in service of advocating human rights issues.  Wrote a number of articles and research on the relationship between electronic and conventional media.

Rogers

Rogers cannot be dealt with as a conventional novel; as it has no main plot where events converge. Nor can characters be addressed as ones that pop up and disappear as narrative characters in the classical novel style. The novel is indeed a combination of memories and hallucinations accompanied by music. The narrator uses the Pink Floyd's "Wall ' album to refresh his memory. Each chapter begins with an English-language couplet of the album songs. There follows narration in English. The coffer of imagination opens up, where we come face to face with characters of the Arabian (One Thousand and One) Nights. Here, we find civil wars, student revolts, a flying whale that struggle with a savage dragon, incomplete love stories and huge machinery that assists students in their fight against fascists. Within the novel, there are more than one plot line, all combined by music. The first is the war led by students against fascist authority, where missile vehicles, huge robots, adapted from Japanese cartoons, are used. In the second line the narrator listens to his grandmother's tales about his street, his obscure lover, his travel to the city, where he sits lonely in bars. Then there comes the tale of the Porter and Four Girls, taken from the Arabian (One Thousand and One) Nights and that is where the novel starts and ends. The novel was published for the first time for free on the internet, before being published in print.