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Banned and restricted books in Egypt
23 titles have been banned or restricted in Egypt, recorded across 24 dated, source-cited events, most often for religious / blasphemy.
Titles
23
Ban events
24
Top reason
Religious / blasphemy
Decades active
8
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Feast for the Seaweeds | Haidar Haidar | 1983 | 2 |
| Children of the Alley | Naguib Mahfouz | 1959 | 1 |
| One Thousand and One Nights | — | 1706 | 1 |
| The Hidden Face of Eve | Nawal El Saadawi | 1977 | 1 |
| God Dies by the Nile | Nawal El Saadawi | 1974 | 1 |
| A Banquet for Seaweed | Haidar Haidar | 1983 | 1 |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 1988 | 1 |
| The Story of Zahra | Hanan al-Shaykh | 1980 | 1 |
| Metro | Magdy El Shafee | 2008 | 1 |
| The Use of Life | Ahmed Naji | — | 1 |
| Critique of Religious Discourse | Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd | — | 1 |
| The Absent Truth | Faraj Foda | — | 1 |
| That Smell | Sonallah Ibrahim | 1966 | 1 |
| Where Is God? | Karam Saber | 2010 | 1 |
| Responsibility for the Failure of the Islamic State | Gamal al-Banna | 2004 | 1 |
| Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic | David Cook | 2002 | 1 |
| The Scientific Report | Mohamed Emara | 2009 | 1 |
| The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel | Uri Bar-Joseph | 2016 | 1 |
| Homethology: Controversy of Identity and Myth | Ehab Adlan | 2023 | 1 |
| The Taming of Tyranny | Anwar al-Hawari | — | 1 |
| The New Dictatorship | Anwar al-Hawari | — | 1 |
| Horgard | Raafat al-Mihi | — | 1 |
| The History of the Zionist Movement and Its Organizations | Mohamed Medhat Mustafa | 2023 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Religious / blasphemy
- 13
- Political content
- 8
- Sexual content
- 4
- Immorality
- 3
By decade
1950s1
1960s1
1970s2
1980s4
1990s2
2000s6
2010s4
2020s4
Documented bans
All 24 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Homethology: Controversy of Identity and Myth2023
The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel2018
The Use of Life2015–2018
Where Is God?2013
Horgard2011
The Scientific Report2009
Metro2008
Responsibility for the Failure of the Islamic State2004
Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic2004
A Feast for the Seaweeds2000
A Banquet for Seaweed2000
Critique of Religious Discourse1995
The Absent Truth1992
The Satanic Verses1988
One Thousand and One Nights1985
A Feast for the Seaweeds1983
The Story of Zahra1982
The Hidden Face of Eve1977
God Dies by the Nile1974
That Smell1966
Children of the Alley1959
The Taming of Tyranny2023
The New Dictatorship2023
The History of the Zionist Movement and Its Organizations2023
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.