Acclaimed writer Alaa Al Aswany stated that he is being sued by a military court for criticizing various institutions in the country, namely the armed forces and the judiciary as well as the Egyptian President. The Egyptian writer, who currently resides in the US, claimed that he is being sued to sensitive content in his last novel “The Republic, As If” as well as his written contributions to Deutsche Welle Arabic in which he criticizes infrastructure projects ordered by President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. This was made clear in his last contribution to DW dated Tuesday 19. Aswany’s last novel, Al Gomhoreya Ka’en (The Republic, As If) is currently banned in Egypt although it was published last year. It narrates the 2011 revolution, which Aswany was a strong participant in, up until the ousting of ex-President Mubarak. The novel supposedly criticizes Egypt’s courts, parliament and constitution. Current governmental narrative has discredited the incidents of 2011, opting instead on the ousting of MB-supporting former President Mohamed Morsy in 2013. Aswany wrote that he had been “referred to a military court, accused of having insulted the head of state and incited hatred…
