Shohdi Naguib conviction
A Cairo court has found Shohdi Naguib guilty of "possessing immoral materials" for posting a poem written by his late father, Naguib Surour, on the website wadada.net. The poem came from Naguib Surour's poetry collection known as the Ummiyat, roughly "Mother Verses." (The collection's full title contains an obscenity which none of the sites I found printed; one site lists the title as ***-Ommiyyat.) The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights called the ruling a "new setback for freedom of opinion and expression in Egypt." An earlier Cairo Times article about Shohdi Naguib's arrest last November notes that Shohdi Naguib is a webmaster at Al Ahram Weekly.
The site in question, wadada.net, has a page devoted to the life and work of Naguib Surour. Most of the material is in Arabic. The English-language material includes a translation of his poem Drink Delirium, and an article about Surur's theatrical work which discusses Al-Umiyyat near the end.
