Wired reports that Shohdy Naguib Surur lost the appeal of his conviction for posting one of his father\’s poems on the Internet. He had been convicted on morals charges and sentenced to one year in prison.
"Shohdy\’s father, the revered Egyptian poet Naguib Surur, who died in 1978, wrote the satirical poem after Egypt was defeated in the 1967 war against Israel. He condemned the Egyptian government and politics, using explicit sexual imagery and colloquial street Arabic. The poem was never published in Egypt but has been disseminated there through underground cassette tapes of Naguib Surur\’s readings."
Shohdy Surur is avoiding incarceration by living in Russia. An earlier Wired story about the case is here.
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